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Your search criteria were: Database searched-aria Composer-Leo Delibes Range Function-not used Voice Part-All Language-All "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength & freedom. The beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony." -Benjamin Britten while listening to the last song in Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde View All Quotes

Pourquoi?
      from Act I of the French opera, Lakmé by Leo Delibes
      Libretto : Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille

• Role : Lakmé, daughter of Nilakantha
• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric coloratura
• Setting : A garden surrounding a secret temple in India
• Range : Has not been entered yet.
• Synopsis : Lakmé notices that the world seems different and she wonders why.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Bob Frone at his web site.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #2800(International).

Bell Song ("Ou va la jeune Hindoue?")
      from Act II of the French opera, Lakmé by Leo Delibes
      Libretto : Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille

• Role : Lakmé, daughter of Nilakantha
• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric coloratura
• Setting : A public square in a town in India
• Range : E4 to E6. Tessitura : Has not been entered yet.
• Synopsis : Ordered by her father, Lakmé sings the legend of the pariah's daughter. The girl was walking through the forest at night and comes upon a stranger who has been set upon by wild animals. She rings a magic bell that is on her wand and saves the man, who is actually Vishnu, the son of Brahma the Creator. Vishnu takes her up to paradise for saving him.
• Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by ChartChai MeeSangNin.
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Elise Curran.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #0345, for score : #2800 (International)

Tu m'as donne le plus doux reve
      from Act III of the French opera, Lakmé by Leo Delibes
      Libretto : Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille

• Role : Lakmé, daughter of Nilakantha
• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric coloratura
• Setting : A garden surrounding a secret temple in India
• Range : Has not been entered yet.
• Synopsis : Without Gerald knowing, Lakmé bites into a poisonous datura leaf because Gerald is leaving her. Before she shows any signs of the poison, though, she tells him that she has learned much from him and offers the sacred cup to him to join them together eternally.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Bob Frone at his web site.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #1747, for score : #2800 (International)

Fantaisie aux divins mensonges
      from Act I of the French opera, Lakmé by Leo Delibes
      Libretto : Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille

• Role : Gérald, an officer in the British Army
• Voice Part : tenor   Fach : tenor leggiero
• Setting : A garden surrounding a secret temple in India
• Range : Has not been entered yet.
• Synopsis : Left alone by his friends, Gerald sings of Lakmé, a priestess at the temple. He imagines that she is there.
• Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by David Morris.
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Bob Frone at his web site.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #0371, for score : #2800 (International)

Ah! viens, dans la foret profonde
      from Act III of the French opera, Lakmé by Leo Delibes
      Libretto : Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille

• Role : Gérald, an officer in the British Army
• Voice Part : tenor   Fach : tenor leggiero
• Setting : A garden surrounding a secret temple in India
• Range : Has not been entered yet.
• Synopsis : After being attacked and nearly killed by the followers of Lakmé's father, Gerald sings that love has taken them away to a world of their own.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Bob Frone at his web site.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #2800(International).

Qu' autour de moi toute sombre
      from Act III of the French opera, Lakmé by Leo Delibes
      Libretto : Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille

• Role : Gérald, an officer in the British Army
• Voice Part : tenor   Fach : tenor leggiero
• Setting : A garden surrounding a secret temple in India
• Range : Has not been entered yet.
• Synopsis : After joining their souls together for eternity by drinking from the sacred cup together, Gerald tells Lakmé that he never wants her to be sorrowful. Little does he know that she has actually poisoned herself by eating a poisonous datura leaf.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Bob Frone at his web site.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #2800(International).