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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.
It included "Aria," a song based on Léo Delibes' The Flower Duet (Lakmé, 1883) and popularized by an award-winning [28] British Airways commercial. A second Grammy-nominated [ 13 ] album, In My Time , followed in 1993.
Jodie Devos (10 October 1988 – 16 June 2024) was a Belgian operatic coloratura soprano, the second-prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2014. Based at the Opéra-Comique in Paris from 2014, she appeared internationally, with a focus on the French repertoire such as Philine in Mignon and Ophélie in Hamlet, both by Ambroise Thomas, and the title role of Lakmé by Leo Delibes.
In 2007, Silverjet parodied the ad, using the same locations and the Flower Duet aria on which the music for the original ad was based. The Silverjet ad also features a face, but it is formed of only four bodies (two eyes, mouth and nose) to emphasize the exclusivity of an all business class airline.
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.--