Opera title: | Lakmé |
Composer: | Leo Delibes |
Language: | French |
Synopsis: | Lakmé Synopsis |
Libretto: | Lakmé Libretto |
Translation(s): | Deutsch |
Also known as: | Flower Duet |
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | Lakmé / Mallika |
Voice(s): | Soprano / Mezzo-Soprano |
Act: | 1.05b |
Previous scene: | Viens Mallika |
Next scene: | Miss Rose Miss Ellen |
Mirages: Sabine Devieilhe - French Opera Arias. Album out 10 November 2017:
Soprano Sabine Devieilhe’s signature operatic role, Lakmé, forms the starting point for her enticing album Mirages. A collection of opera and song in French, its theme is the exotic allure of faraway – and imagined – places and people. In addition to three numbers from Delibes’ opera, it features music by Berlioz, Debussy and Stravinsky and some rarer names: Thomas, Messager, Koechlin and Delage. Devieilhe is joined by mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa, pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the period-instrument orchestra Les Siècles under its founder, François-Xavier Roth.
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LAKME
Dôme épais le jasmin,
A la rose s’assemble,
Rive en fleurs frais matin,
Nous appellent ensemble.
Ah! glissons en suivant
Le courant fuyant:
Dans l’on de frémissante,
D’une main nonchalante,
Gagnons le bord,
Où l’oiseau chante, l’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.
Dôme épais, blanc jasmin,
Nous appellent ensemble!
MILLIKA
Sous le dôme épais, où le blanc jasmin
A la rose s’assemble,
Sur la rive en fleurs riant au matin,
Viens, descendons ensemble.
Doucement glissons
De son flot charmant
Suivons le courant fuyant:
Dans l’on de frémissante,
D’une main nonchalante,
Viens, gagnons le bord,
Où la source dort
Et l’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.
Sous le dôme épais,
Sous le blanc jasmin,
Ah! descendons ensemble!
LAKME
Mais, je ne sais quelle crainte subite,
S’empare de moi,
Quand mon père va seul à leur ville maudite;
Je tremble, je tremble d’effroi!
MALLIKA
Pourquoi le Dieu Ganeça le protège,
Jusqu’à l’étang où s’ébattent joyeux
Les cygnes aux ailes de neige,
Allons cueillir les lotus bleus.
LAKME
Oui, près des cygnes aux ailles de meige,
Allons cueillir les lotus bleus.
Ensemble
LAKME
Dôme épais le jasmin,
A la rose s’assemble,
Rive en fleurs frais matin,
Nous appellent ensemble.
Ah! glissons en suivant
Le courant fuyant:
Dans l’on de frémissante,
D’une main nonchalante,
Gagnons le bord,
Où l’oiseau chante, l’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.
Dôme épais, blanc jasmin,
Nous appellent ensemble!
MALLIKA
Sous le dôme épais, où le blanc jasmin
A la rose s’assemble,
Sur la rive en fleurs riant au matin,
Viens, descendons ensemble.
Doucement glissons
De son flot charmant
Suivons le courant fuyant:
Dans l’on de frémissante,
D’une main nonchalante,
Viens, gagnons le bord,
Où la source dort
Et l’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.
Sous le dôme épais,
Sous le blanc jasmin,
Ah! descendons ensemble!
(Elles remontent lentement vers la barque amarrée dans les roseaux.)
(Lakmé et Mallika montent dans la barque qui s’éloigne.)
LAKME
Thick dome jasmine,
At the rose assembles,
Fresh flowering shore in the morning,
We call together.
Ah! slide next
The current running away:
In the quivering one,
With a nonchalant hand,
Let's win the edge,
Where the bird sings, the bird, the bird sings.
Thick dome, jasmine white,
Call us together!
MILLIKA
Under the thick dome, where the jasmine white
At the rose assembles,
On the bank in blooming laughing in the morning,
Come, let's go down together.
Gently gliding
From its charming flow
Let's follow the current running away:
In the quivering one,
With a nonchalant hand,
Come, win the edge,
Where the source is sleeping
And the bird, the bird sings.
Under a dome,
Under the jasmine white,
Ah! let's go down together!
LAKME
But, I do not know what sudden fear,
Take hold of me,
When my father goes alone to their cursed city;
I tremble, I tremble with terror!
MALLIKA
Why the God Ganeça protects him,
Up to the pond where frolic
Swans with snow wings,
Let's go pick the blue lotus.
LAKME
Yes, near the swans to the eves of meige,
Let's go pick the blue lotus.
Together
LAKME
Thick dome jasmine,
At the rose assembles,
Fresh flowering shore in the morning,
We call together.
Ah! slide next
The current running away:
In the quivering one,
With a nonchalant hand,
Let's win the edge,
Where the bird sings, the bird, the bird sings.
Thick dome, jasmine white,
Call us together!
MALLIKA
Under the thick dome, where the jasmine white
At the rose assembles,
On the bank in blooming laughing in the morning,
Come, let's go down together.
Gently gliding
From its charming flow
Let's follow the current running away:
In the quivering one,
With a nonchalant hand,
Come, win the edge,
Where the source is sleeping
And the bird, the bird sings.
Under a dome,
Under the jasmine white,
Ah! let's go down together!
(They go back slowly to the boat moored in the reeds.)
(Lakmé and Mallika get on the boat that is moving away.)
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