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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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'Lakme' provides showcase for its voices

Composer Leo Delibes' name has been kept alive in musical circles thanks to the continued use of this opera's "Flower Duet" in hundreds of commercials and dozens of films. But in his lifetime, Delibes ...