Dessay,Natalie Delibes: Lakme CD

Opera audiences in 19th-century Paris may never have visited India, but they loved to dream about it. After the successes enjoyed by Lesp?cheurs de perles and Le roi de Lahore Delibes knew what he was doing when he chose to set an adaptation of Pierre Loti's exotic Indian novel Rarahu and duly scored a hit with his opera Lakm? at the Op?ra-Comique in 1883. The opera is nothing without a star in the title-role.

1. Lakm? : Pr?lude 2. Lakm?, Act 1: "A l'heure accoutum?e" (Choeur, Nilakantha) 3. Lakm?, Act 1: "Blanche Dourga" (Lakm?, Choeur, Nilakantha) 4. Lakm?, Act 1 Scene 3: "Lakm?, c'est toi qui nous prot?ges !" (Nilakantha, Lakm?, Hadji, Mallika) 5. Lakm?, Act 1: "D?me ?pais, le jasmin" (Lakm?, Mallika) 6. Lakm?, Act 1: "Miss Rose, Miss Ellen" (Mistress Bentson, Ellen, Rose, Gerald, Frederic) 7. Lakm?, Act 1: "Quand une femme est si jolie" (Ellen, Frederic, Gerald, Rose, Mistress Bentson) 8. Lakm?, Act 1: "Nous commettons un sacril?ge" (Frederic, Gerald, Mistress Bentson, Rose, Ellen) 9. Lakm?, Act 1: "Prendre le dessin d'un bijou" (Gerald) 10. Lakm?, Act 1: "Non ! Je ne veux pas toucher" (Gerald, Lakm?, Mallika) 11. Lakm?, Act 1: "Les fleurs me paraissent plus belles" (Lakm?) 12. Lakm?, Act 1: "Ah ! Mallika ! Mallika" (Lakm?, Mallika, Hadji) 13. Lakm?, Act 1: "D'o? viens-tu ? Que veux-tu ?" (Lakm?, Gerald) 14. Lakm?, Act 1: "Viens l? ! l? !" (Hadji, Nilakantha, Lakm?, Choeur) 15. Lakm?, Act 1: Entr'acte 16. Lakm?, Act 2: "Allons, avant que midi sonne" (Choeur, Mistress Bentson, Frederic, Rose) 17. Lakm?, Act 2: "Enfin ! Nous aurons du silence !" (Mistress Bentson, Frederic, Rose) 18. Lakm?, Act 2: Airs de danse - Introduction 19. Lakm?, Act 2: Airs de danse - Terna 20. Lakm?, Act 2: Airs de danse - Rektah 21. Lakm?, Act 2: Airs de danse - Persian 22. Lakm?, Act 2: Airs de danse - "Ah ! Ah ! Par nos yeux charm?s" (Choeur) 23. Lakm?, Act 2: Airs de danse - Sortie 24. Lakm?, Act 2: "Voyez donc ce vieillard" (Rose, Frederic, Mistress Bentson) 25. Lakm?, Act 2: "Ah ! Ce vieillard encor !" (Rose/Nilakantha/Lakm?) 26. Lakm?, Act 2: "Ah ! c'est de ta douleur" (Lakm?, Nilakantha) 27. Lakm?, Act 2: "Par les dieux inspir?s" - Air des clochettes. "O? va la jeune hindoue" (Lakm?, Nilakantha, Chorus) 28. Lakm?, Act 2: "La rage me d?vore" (Nilakantha, Lakm?, Choeur, Gerald, Frederic) 29. Lakm?, Act 2: "Au milieu des chants d'all?gresse" (Nilakantha, Lakm?, Choeur) 30. Lakm?, Act 2: "Le ma?tre ne pense qu'? sa vengeance" (Hadji) 31. Lakm?, Act 2: "Lakm? ! Lakm? ! C'est toi !" (Gerald, Lakm?) 32. Lakm?, Act 2: "O Dourga, toi qui renais" (Choeur, Ellen, Rose, Mistress Bentson, Frederic, Gerald) 33. Lakm?, Act 2: Entr'acte 34. Lakm?, Act 3: "Sous le ciel tout ?toil?" (Lakm?) 35. Lakm?, Act 3: "Quel vague souvenir alourdit ma pens?e ?" (Gerald, Lakm?) 36. Lakm?, Act 3: "Lakm? ! Lakm? ! Ah ! Viens dans la for?t profonde" (Gerald) 37. Lakm?, Act 3: "L?, je pourrai t'entendre" (Lakm?, Choeur, Gerald) 38. Lakm?, Act 3: "Vivant !" (Frederic, Gerald) 39. Lakm?, Act 3: "Ils allaient deux ? deux" (Lakm?, Gerald, Choeur) 40. Lakm?, Act 3: "C'est lui ! C'est lui !" (Nilakantha, Lakm?, Gerald)