FULL LAKME (Delibes) Liege 2022 Jodie Devos, Philippe Talbot, Lionel Lhote, Pierre Doyen
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Lakme   
- Composer: Delibes Leo  
- Libretto: Edmond Gondinet, Philippe Gille    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Opera Royal de Wallonie-Liege  
- Recorded: September 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Jodie Devos, Philippe Talbot, Lionel Lhote, Pierre Doyen, Marion Lebègue, Julie Mossay, Sarah Laulan, Pierre Romainville, Caroline De Mahieu
- Conductor: Frédéric Chaslin  
- Orchestra: Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège  
- Chorus: Chœurs de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège  
- Choreographer: BARBARA PALUMBO  
- Stage Director: Davide Garattini Raimondi  
- Stage Designer: PAOLO VITALE  
- Costume Designer: Giada Masi  
- Lighting Designer: PAOLO VITALE  
Information about the Recording
- Published by: mezzo  
- Date Published: 2022  
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs  
- Video Recording from: vk     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from Opera de Liege:
In 19th century British India, Lakmé, a young Brahmin priestess, is in love with Gerald, who is promised to an Englishwoman. Her father, Nilakantha, cannot bear this sacrilege and seeks to murder his daughter’s lover. Wounded, Gerald is hidden in the forest by Lakmé who understands that their love is impossible. She sanctifies him with sacred water and then swallows a fatal poison.
Famous for the unforgettable high-pitched vocals in Air des clochettes, the title role pitches a sunny, flexible and seductive character despite a hostile, multi-cultural and colonial environment heralded by Madama Butterfly by Puccini. With her famous retort “Mon ciel n’est pas le tien. Le Dieu que tu révères n’est pas celui que je connais” (My heaven is not your own, the God you worship blindly is not the one whom I have known), Lakmé movingly expresses the clash of cultures beyond which love persists as the only true value of humanity.