Léo Delibes: Lakmé [Import]

Vincenzo Bellini (Composer), Leo Delibes (Composer), Nicola Rescigno (Conductor), Richard Bonynge (Conductor), Philadelphia Lyric Opera Orchestra (Orchestra), Alicia Maraslian (Performer), Anastasios Vrenios (Performer), Betty Allen (Performer), Cornelis Opthof (Performer), Ezio Flagello (Performer), Gabriel Bacquier (Performer), Huguette Tourangeau (Performer), Jacqueline Pierce (Performer), Joan Sutherland (Performer), Luciano del Moral (Performer), Maxine Makas (Performer), Renato Cioni (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Alicia Maraslian, Anastasios Vrenios, Betty Allen, Cornelis Opthof, Ezio Flagello, et al.
• Orchestra: Philadelphia Lyric Opera Orchestra
• Conductor: Nicola Rescigno, Richard Bonynge
• Composer: Vincenzo Bellini, Leo Delibes
• Audio CD (January 21, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Bella Voce Records
• ASIN: B000005SJA
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #704,547 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #82 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Divas > Sutherland, Joan

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Lakmé, opera: Prélude

2. Lakmé, opera: Act 1. À l'heure accoutumé

3. Lakmé, opera: Act 1. Blanche Dourga

4. Lakmé, opera: Act 1. Lakmé, c'est toi qui nous protèges!

5. Lakmé, opera: Act 1. Viens, Mallika... Dôme épais le jasmin

6. Lakmé, opera: Act 1. Miss Rose, Miss Ellen

7. Lakmé, opera: Act 1. Quand une femme est si jolie

8. Lakmé, opera: Act 1. C'est le dieu de la jeunesse

9. Lakmé, opera: Act 1. Prendre le dessin d'un bijou... Fantaisie aux divins mensonges

10. Lakmé, opera: Act 1. C'est elle... c'est Lakmé

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Lakmé, opera: Act 2. La rage me dévore

2. Lakmé, opera: Act 2. Au milieu des chants d'allégresse

3. Lakmé, opera: Act 2. Le maître ne pense qu'à sa vengeance

4. Lakmé, opera: Act 2. Lakmé! Lakmé! C'est toi!

5. Lakmé, opera: Act 2. Dans la forêt près de nous

6. Lakmé, opera: Act 2. O Dourga, toi qui renais

7. Lakmé, opera: Act 2. Voyez cette ville en fête

8. Lakmé, opera: Act 2. Entr'acte

9. La sonnambula, opera: Act 1. Scene 1. Care compagne, e voi, reneri amici

10. La sonnambula, opera: Act 2. Scene 2. Oh! se una volta sola riverderlo io potessi

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You cannot buy this album cheap enough to bother with it, December 27, 2005

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This review is from: Léo Delibes: Lakmé (Audio CD)

This is easily the worst recording I have ever attempted to listen to. The performers are fine. The orchestra is only passible. The technical recording itself is atrocious! The microphones must have been placed over the front rows of the audience who were asthmatic or recovering from bronchitis. If you dare to listen to this wreck of a recording you will hear more hacking, coughing, nose blowing and sneezing than you should have heard in your life time. On top of that, the first rows must have been peopled by those who are enchanted by their own voices. I couldn't believe that an audience could be so crude.
DO NOT waste your money on this recording. It is so bad I haven't been able to tolerate it long enough to put the second disc in the player--even though I'm a huge Sutherland fan. If I ever thoroughly hate somebody, I'll give them this recording for a gift.