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Léo Delibes' Lakmé may not be a household name but contains the 'Flower Duet' in Act I - one of the best-known opera moments in the world. Gerald is a lieutenant in the British Army stationed in India ...

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AN ORIENTAL fantasy set during the days of the British Raj in India, Lakme is best known for the Flower Duet that became a theme tune for British Airways advertisements. Leo Delibes’s 1883 opera was a ...

Beethoven, Janácek and private passions are played out to perfection in Laura Wade’s Kreutzer vs Kreutzer. And against the odds, Lakmé soars Chamber music has its risks. The murderer in Tolstoy’s The ...

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 ...

Leo Delibes’s 1883 opera was a hit in France, but is rarely seen in England, although Opera Holland Park must have a soft spot for Lakme, having first staged it in 2007. The new production is directed ...

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 ...