Delibes - Lakmé - Viens, Mallika, les lianes en fleurs... Sous le dôme épais (The Flower Duet)

Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (21 February 1836 16 January 1891) was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage. Delibes’ work is known to have been a great influence on composers such as Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Debussy. Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, based on the 1880 novel Rarahu ou Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti. The subject of the opera was suggested by Gondinet as a vehicle for the