Opera

Delibes's Lakmé

Opéra Royal de Wallonie

Live
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Cast

Davide Garattini Raimondi — Stage director

Paolo Vitale — Set designer, lighting

Giada Masi — Costumes

Barbara Palumbo — Choreographer

Jodie Devos — Lakmé

Philippe Talbot — Gérald

Lionel Lhote — Nilakantha

Pierre Doyen — Frédéric

Marion Lebègue — Mallika

Julie Mossay — Ellen

Caroline de Mahieu — Rose

Sarah Laulan — Mistress Bentson

Pierre Romainville — Hadji

Benoît Delvaux — Le Kouravar

Xavier Petithan — Chinese merchant

Benoît Scheuren — Fortune teller

Program notes

Delibes's legendary opera like you've never seen it before—and for the first time on medici.tv! Marvel at the first act's sublimely beautiful "Flower Duet" performed by Jodie Devos as Lakmé and Marion Lebègue as Mallika, and the iconic "Bell Song" in the second act, a longtime favorite aria for coloratura sopranos like Devos—all in a vividly colorful staging by Davide Garattini Raimondi at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège. Though Delibes, like many of his contemporaries, has been criticized for trafficking in exoticism, his score remains as lush and irresistible as ever—and Raimondi's 2022 staging grapples with the complex and troubling legacy of colonialism in India through striking imagery and the use of excerpts from speeches by Mahatma Gandhi. Frédéric Chaslin leads the world-class house orchestra and chorus, while Devos and Lebègue join an all-star vocal cast that includes baritone Lionel Lhote as Lakmé's father, the Brahmin priest Nilakantha, and tenor Philippe Talbot as British officer Gérald, who falls in love with Lakmé.

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