Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Delibes was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val, now part of La Flèche , on 21 February 1836; [1] his father worked for the French postal service and his mother was a talented amateur musician, the daughter of an opera singer and niece of the organist Édouard Batiste. [2] Delibes was the couple's only child.
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.
2 acts: Philippe Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Achille Bourdois: 25 January 1861: Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens Les eaux d'Ems: comédie: 1 act: Hector-Jonathan Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy: 9 April 1861: Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens Mon ami Pierrot: opérette: 1 act: Lockroy (Joseph Philippe Simon) 22 July 1862: Bad Ems ...
Rate of change may refer to: Rate of change (mathematics), either average rate of change or instantaneous rate of change Instantaneous rate of change, rate of change at a given instant in time; Rate of change (technical analysis), a simple technical indicator in finance
Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).
In mathematics, a rate is the quotient of two quantities, often represented as a fraction. [1] If the divisor (or fraction denominator) in the rate is equal to one expressed as a single unit, and if it is assumed that this quantity can be changed systematically (i.e., is an independent variable), then the dividend (the fraction numerator) of the rate expresses the corresponding rate of change ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us