The New York Times

DELIBES'S "LAKME" AT THE METROPOLITAN; The Indian Opera Revived After Fifteen Years. MME. SEMBRICH AS HEROINE A Performance Brilliantly Staged -- Oriental Music and Some Other ...

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Lakmé @ Opera Holland Park, London

If Daniel Slater’s current production of Aida represents Opera Holland Park at its most outlandish and flamboyant, Aylin Bozok’s Lakmé stands at the opposite end of the spectrum in being extremely ...
Post-Bulletin

Minnesota Opera has near-miss with ‘Lakme’

A good case can be made for a fresh look at "Lakme," the pretty but gossamer-thin French opera that has survived for 120 years mainly because of two gorgeous arias. Yes, it's lightweight, a ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Leads' singing falls flat in forbidden love story Opera review • Smaller roles in 'Lakmé' outshine main players in show that relies heavily on performance rather than ...

Léo Delibes' 1883 opera "Lakmé" has beautiful melodies and a gorgeous orchestration rich in Orientalisms. That music accompanies a rather unlikely story of forbidden love in an exotic setting, India ...
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Lakmé @ Opera Holland Park, London

Watching Delibes’ Lakmé is a bit like seeing someone being beaten to death with a feather. All the ingredients of operatic tragedy are there but delivered with the utmost gentleness and grace. In ...
The Arts Desk

Lakmé, Opera Holland Park

At Holland Park second time around – the company’s first production was in 2007 – it gets the singers, and at the very highest level, but not the concept, or at least one that has any impact. For a ...