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The "Flower Duet" is a duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano in the first act of the tragic opera Lakmé, premiered in Paris in 1883 and composed by Léo Delibes. It is sung by the characters Lakmé, daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika, as they go to gather flowers by a river.
Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.. The score, written from 1881 to 1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra-Comique at the (second) Salle Favart in Paris, with stage decorations designed by Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (act 1), Eugène Carpezat and (Joseph-) Antoine Lavastre (act 2), and ...
His works include the ballets Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876) and the opera Lakmé (1883), which includes the well-known "Flower Duet". Born into a musical family, Delibes enrolled at France's foremost music academy, the Conservatoire de Paris , when he was twelve, studying under several professors including Adolphe Adam .
There are three versions of the song. The album and radio remix versions feature Julie Galios from the band My Brilliant Beast. The harder rock version, which was found as a hidden track on the album and is also referred to as "Black Black Heart 2.0", features vocals by Kim Bingham.
OK, I've removed all the trivia (let people put it in the Flower Duet article if they want to - there's a whole lot of stuff there already) and added in a bit about the Bell Song. Ideally, the synopsis should be expanded and the musical numbers incorporated where they appear rather than as a separate list, but that's for another day.
For movie references I took out the movie description and the description of where the song occurs and left just the title. Note that in soundtrack listings the aria can be listed as "The Flower Duet", "Viens, Mallika", or "Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin". "Bell Song" from the same opera also appears in several movies.--
It was released on 25 September 2012 on YouTube as part of Minogue's 'K25' celebrations where her Twitter followers had to unlock the video by tweeting the hashtag '#KylieFlower' 25,000 times. In three days, the video got more than 1 million views on YouTube. [17] Bild noticed the similarities to the music video of "Where the Wild Roses Grow". [18]
The Complete Duets is a two-disc compilation album of duet recordings by Motown Records artists Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, recorded between 1965 and 1969.The set compiles all of the tracks from the duo's three albums - United, You're All I Need and Easy - as well as several of Tammi Terrell's solo recordings and other previously unissued material.