Instrumental version of "The Flower Duet" from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé. Thank you for watching this video by Live Your Dreams 2 Channel ! PLEASE, SUBSCRIBE ! ► http://goo.gl/Eti5Gd FACEBOOK ► http://goo.gl/QaqZXF Music: "The Flower Duet - Léo Delibes" performed by Quartet de Quatre Saisons (https://archive.org/details/QuartetdeQuatreSaisonsFlowerDuet) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.5/ Thumbnail Picture: "Flower" by Solarisgirl (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sanmitrakale/9730067911) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ MORE CLASSICAL MUSIC VIDEOS: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons "Le quattro stagioni" - Spring "La primavera" - Classical Music Violin HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evClj9OlJ5I Tchaikovsky - "Waltz of the Flowers" The Nutcracker - Relaxing Classical Music - Música Clásica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsmqs03ntM ★2 HOURS★ of Classical Music for Studying - Gymnopedie No. 1 Satie - Relaxing Music Classical Piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj_UETbqHuI ★3 HOURS★ of Classical Music for Studying - Study Music Mozart - Relaxing Music Classical Piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQqvi1-hHE Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D major "Pachelbel's canon" - HD Classical Music Violin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-mIfA_t_CM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Flower Duet" (French: Duo des fleurs / Sous le dôme épais) is a famous duet for sopranos from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé, first performed in Paris in 1883. The duet takes place in act 1 of the three-act opera, between characters Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika, as they go to gather flowers by a river. The duet is frequently used in advertisements and films and is popular as a concert piece. The duet for Cio-Cio San and Suzuki "Il cannone del porto!" from Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly is also known as the "Flower Duet". Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. The score, written in 1881–1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris. Set in British India in the mid-19th century, Lakmé is based on Théodore Pavie's story "Les babouches du Brahamane" and novel Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti. The opera includes the popular Flower Duet (Sous le dôme épais) for sopranos performed in act 1 by Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika. The opera's most famous aria is the Bell Song (L'Air des clochettes) in Act 2. Like other French operas of the period, Lakmé captures the ambience of the Orient seen through Western eyes, which was periodically in vogue during the latter part of the nineteenth century and in line with other operatic works such as Bizet's The Pearl Fishers and Massenet's Le roi de Lahore. The subject of the opera was suggested by Gondinet as a vehicle for the American soprano Marie van Zandt.

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