Delibes: Lakme

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Release Date: 01 January 2007

Label: Naxos - Historical / Naxos Historical

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 2

Barcode: 747313323524

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: DELIBES

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Great Opera Recordings Léo Delibes (1836-1891) Lakmé Opera in 3 actsLibretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre LotiLakmé - Mado Robin (soprano) Mallika - Agnès Disney (mezzo-soprano) Ellen - Claudine Collart (soprano) Rose - Simone LeMaître (soprano) Gérald - Libero De Luca (tenor) Nilakantha - Jean Borthayre (bass) Frédéric - Jacques Jansen (baritone) Hadji - Pierre Germain (tenor) Mistress Bentson - Jane Perriat (mezzo-soprano) Fortune Teller - Edmond Chastenet (tenor) Chinese Merchant - Camille Rouquetty (tenor)Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra-Comique, Paris Georges Sébastian The French composer Léo Delibes was born in Saint-Germain du val, near Le Mans, in 1836, the grandson of an opera singer, and the son of a postman and his musical wife. Following the early death of his father, he was raised by his mother and uncle who introduced him to the piano and to composition. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1847 as a composition pupil of Adolphe Adam, the composer of the ballet Giselle. He served as accompanist and chorus-master at the Théâtre-Lyrique between 1853 and 1864, and was appointed second chorus-master at the Paris Opéra in 1865. He was also a church organist between 1853 and 1871.Delibes's first work for the theatre was the light opera Deux sous de charbon, which was staged at the Folies-Nouvelles in 1856. He continued to compose similar works for the next fifteen years, at the rate of about one a year. Following the success of his ceremonial cantata Alger, written for Napoleon III, he was invited to collaborate with another composer, Léon Minkus, on the creation of the ballet La Source, first performed in 1866. Delibes's contributions were considered most successful and he was asked to compose additional music for the revival of Adam's Le Corsaire in 1867. This was followed by the commission for his first full-length ballet score, Coppélia, which received is first performance in 1870 to great acclaim. Delibes was the first composer of ballet music to include within it expressive elements. His score for the ballet Sylvia, first seen in 1876, is considered to be the best ballet music before Tchaikovsky, who judged it to be finer even than his own Swan Lake.Between Coppélia and Sylvia Delibes composed his first full-length opera, Le Roi l'a dit, which received its première at the Opéra-Comique in 1873. This was followed by another opera, Jean de Nivelle, first seen in 1880. By now established as a leading member of the French musical establishment, Delibes was appointed professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire in 1881. The following year he composed incidental music for a production at the Comédie-Française of Victor Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse. Thereafter he devoted himself to opera. His greatest operatic succes
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