The New York Times

DELIBES'S "LAKME" AT THE METROPOLITAN; The Indian Opera Revived After Fifteen Years. MME. SEMBRICH AS HEROINE A Performance Brilliantly Staged -- Oriental Music and Some Other ...

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The Washington Post

Delibes' 'Lakme': More Than a One-Hit Wonder

Leo Delibes' "Lakme" once had a foothold in the standard operatic repertoire as a showy vehicle for sopranos like Lily Pons, Mady Mesple and Joan Sutherland. But over the past quarter-century, this ...
NPR

Delibes

We move on to a pair of songs without words. The Flower Duet from the opera "Lakme" by Leo Delibes became not only one of the composer's most successful pieces, but also one of the most famous tunes ...
The Washington Post

Bringing Out The Best In 'Lakme'

Ten years ago, the Spoleto Festival got some good news. Repeated and acrimonious disagreements between the festival's octogenarian founder, the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, and the Spoleto board of ...