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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.
It was Yanni's first Grammy-nominated album and featured "Aria", a song based on The Flower Duet and popularized by an award-winning British Airways commercial. A second Grammy-nominated album, In My Time, was released in 1993.
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.
"Black Black Heart" is a song written by Usher and Jeff Pearce and for which the operatic female vocal is provided by Bingham, while the chorus samples The Flower Duet (Sous le dôme épais), a duet for sopranos from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé, as a hook.
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.--