8 Feb 2022

DELIBES: Flower Duet, from Lakmé

From Music Alive, 8:10 pm on 8 February 2022

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Performed as an encore by Melanie Lançon, Bede Hanley and Stephen De Pledge at the CMNZ concert, 'Fantasy & Romance', Auckland Concert Chamber, 3 August 2021.

Melanie Lancon, Bede Hanley, Stephen De Pledge

Melanie Lancon, Bede Hanley, Stephen De Pledge Photo: RNZ/Tim Dodd, Kelley Eady-Loveridge

In the opening scene of Léo Delibes's opera Lakmé set in India, the title character, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, goes to the river with her servant Mallika to gather flowers.

Recorded by RNZ Concert, Auckland Concert Chamber, 3 August 2021
Producer: Tim Dodd; Engineer: Adrian Hollay