Name: Natalie Dessay - Delibes: Lakme (CD)
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SKU: 190296279096
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FORMAT: New CD • UPC: 190296279096
GENRE: Classical • RECORD LABEL: Erato
RELEASE DATE: 09/29/23

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Natalie Dessay - Delibes: Lakme (CD)

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Opera audiences in 19th-century Paris may never have visited India, but they loved to dream about it. After the successes enjoyed by Lespêcheurs de perles and Le roi de Lahore Delibes knew what he was doing when he chose to set an adaptation of Pierre Loti's exotic Indian novel Rarahu and duly scored a hit with his opera Lakmé at the Opéra-Comique in 1883. The opera is nothing without a star in the title-role.

Natalie Dessay is certainly that and yet she never fails to remember that Delibes's heroine must be fragile and sensitive. Her Bell Song, brilliantly sung, is also intent on telling a story. Her singing of the death scene, with its delicate fil de voce perfectly poised each time the high A comes round, is heartfelt and leaves no doubt that this is a Lakmé who deserves to go to heaven. EMI found a worthy tenor to partner her. Gregory Kunde, as Gérald, is at ease at the top of his voice. At the first entrance of the colonial Brits, Frédéric describes Gérald as a poet and Kunde lives up to the promise by phrasing his opening solo, 'Fantaisie aux divins mensonges', with poetic sensibility. In the duets he and Dessay are tender young love personified. The supporting cast is also a decent one.

Michel Plasson gives the music room to breathe and is able to conjure a dreamy atmosphere in the scenes of romance. His Toulouse orchestra is adequate, if not exceptional, and the recording is of a good standard. What reason is there to resist?

Delibes: Lakme - Natalie Dessay

TRACK LIST

Tracklist:

Lakmé : Prélude
Lakmé Act 1: "A l'heure accoutumée" (Choeur Nilakantha)
Lakmé Act 1: "Blanche Dourga" (Lakmé Choeur Nilakantha)
Lakmé Act 1 Scene 3: "Lakmé c'est toi qui nous protèges !" (Nilakantha Lakmé Hadji Mallika)
Lakmé Act 1: "Dôme épais le jasmin" (Lakmé Mallika)
Lakmé Act 1: "Miss Rose Miss Ellen" (Mistress Bentson Ellen Rose Gerald Frederic)
Lakmé Act 1: "Quand une femme est si jolie" (Ellen Frederic Gerald Rose Mistress Bentson)
Lakmé Act 1: "Nous commettons un sacrilège" (Frederic Gerald Mistress Bentson Rose Ellen)
Lakmé Act 1: "Prendre le dessin d'un bijou" (Gerald)
Lakmé Act 1: "Non ! Je ne veux pas toucher" (Gerald Lakmé Mallika)
Lakmé Act 1: "Les fleurs me paraissent plus belles" (Lakmé)
Lakmé Act 1: "Ah ! Mallika ! Mallika" (Lakmé Mallika Hadji)
Lakmé Act 1: "D'où viens-tu ? Que veux-tu ?" (Lakmé Gerald)
Lakmé Act 1: "Viens là ! là !" (Hadji Nilakantha Lakmé Choeur)
Lakmé Act 1: Entr'acte
Lakmé Act 2: "Allons avant que midi sonne" (Choeur Mistress Bentson Frederic Rose)
Lakmé Act 2: "Enfin ! Nous aurons du silence !" (Mistress Bentson Frederic Rose)
Lakmé Act 2: Airs de danse - Introduction
Lakmé Act 2: Airs de danse - Terna
Lakmé Act 2: Airs de danse - Rektah
Lakmé Act 2: Airs de danse - Persian
Lakmé Act 2: Airs de danse - "Ah ! Ah ! Par nos yeux charmés" (Choeur)
Lakmé Act 2: Airs de danse - Sortie
Lakmé Act 2: "Voyez donc ce vieillard" (Rose Frederic Mistress Bentson)
Lakmé Act 2: "Ah ! Ce vieillard encor !" (Rose/Nilakantha/Lakmé)
Lakmé Act 2: "Ah ! c'est de ta douleur" (Lakmé Nilakantha)
Lakmé Act 2: "Par les dieux inspirés" - Air des clochettes. "Où va la jeune hindoue" (Lakmé Nilakantha Chorus)
Lakmé Act 2: "La rage me dévore" (Nilakantha Lakmé Choeur Gerald Frederic)
Lakmé Act 2: "Au milieu des chants d'allégresse" (Nilakantha Lakmé Choeur)
Lakmé Act 2: "Le maître ne pense qu'à sa vengeance" (Hadji)
Lakmé Act 2: "Lakmé ! Lakmé ! C'est toi !" (Gerald Lakmé)
Lakmé Act 2: "O Dourga toi qui renais" (Choeur Ellen Rose Mistress Bentson Frederic Gerald)
Lakmé Act 2: Entr'acte
Lakmé Act 3: "Sous le ciel tout étoilé" (Lakmé)
Lakmé Act 3: "Quel vague souvenir alourdit ma pensée ?" (Gerald Lakmé)
Lakmé Act 3: "Lakmé ! Lakmé ! Ah ! Viens dans la forêt profonde" (Gerald)
Lakmé Act 3: "Là je pourrai t'entendre" (Lakmé Choeur Gerald)
Lakmé Act 3: "Vivant !" (Frederic Gerald)
Lakmé Act 3: "Ils allaient deux à deux" (Lakmé Gerald Choeur)
Lakmé Act 3: "C'est lui ! C'est lui !" (Nilakantha Lakmé Gerald)