Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Lakmé makes its Missouri debut at Union Avenue Opera August 21, with ...
She’s a first cousin to Madame Butterfly; they’re both exotic Easterners who commit suicide over a Westerner with some annoying notions about duty. She’s a second cousin, once removed, to Carmen; they ...
Students in the opera program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts will present “Lakme” at the school’s Performing Art Center on Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, 6 and 8 The production, staged by veteran director ...
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For a House with Diana Eck, a professor of comparative religion studies and Indian studies, as a House master, it was only appropriate for Lowell House’s Opera Company to choose “Lakmé” as their 2014 ...
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This is an opera that outside France has been in need of singers and a not too violent concept to do it justice. At Holland Park second time around – the company’s first production was in 2007 – it ...
A good case can be made for a fresh look at "Lakme," the pretty but gossamer-thin French opera that has survived for 120 years mainly because of two gorgeous arias. Yes, it's lightweight, a ...
Exoticism was part and parcel of French Grand Opera in the late 19th century. Léo Delibes found inspiration in India for Lakmé, a story of a Hindu princess who falls in love with a British soldier and ...