Organization

Conductor

Guillaume Tourniaire

Stage director

Laurent Pelly

Costume designer

Set designer

Camille Dugas

Lighting designer

Joël Adam

Singer

Soprano

Sabine Devieilhe

Lakme

Bass

Nicolas Courjal

Nilakantha

Tenor

Julien Behr

Gerald

Baritone

Guillaume Andrieux

Frederic

Mezzo-soprano

Ambroisine Bré

Mallika

Lauranne Oliva

Miss Ellen

Elsa Roux-chamoux

Miss Rose

Raphaël Bremard

Hadji

Opéra National du Rhin

Others

Chœur de l'Opéra National du Rhin

Orchestra

Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse

Opéra Comique

Nice Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus master

Hendrik Haas

Ingrid Perruche

Miss Bentson

French

Lakmé

Mulhouse

France

La Filature

Strasbourg

Opéra national du Rhin

Lakmé Delibes

Public

Private

German

Approved

Quelque part en Inde, aux temps des colonies.OPÉRA | LAKME | Bande-annonceDATESOpéra, STRASBOURG - Jeu. 2 nov. 20h / Sam. 4 nov. 20h / Mar. 7 nov. 20h / Jeu....

Somewhere in India, in colonial times. — Dawn has broken and the lianas in bloom are already casting their shadows on the sacred stream which flows calm and dark, as if awakened by the song of noisy birds. There, under the thick dome of white jasmine and roses, a profound peace reigns: the wing of love has passed over the hearts of two lovers who are still asleep. She is the deified daughter of an untamed Brahman who breathes avenging hatred upon the Hindus. He is an officer of this victorious English army which chases the gods from their secular temples. It only took an exchange of glances, as fleeting as the tinkling of bells, to make them forget the world. But reality is about to disturb their dream.

Created in 1883 at the Opéra-Comique, Lakmé is rooted in the fascination of Europeans for the Orient and the context of colonial wars. Léo Delibes sublimates the inexhaustible theme of impossible love with the heady sensuality of his music, which springs from the famous “Duo des fleurs” and the “Air des clochettes” in which the coloratura soprano Sabine Devieilhe excels. The director Laurent Pelly has imagined around his character a bare, symbolic and stylized universe, oriented towards the tradition of Asian theater and shadow puppets. Far from any junk exoticism, it offers a universal dimension to this masterpiece of the French repertoire, entrusted to chef Guillaume Tourniaire.

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