Leo Delibes' "Lakme" once had a foothold in the standard operatic repertoire as a showy vehicle for sopranos like Lily Pons, Mady Mesple and Joan Sutherland. But over the past quarter-century, this ...

We move on to a pair of songs without words. The Flower Duet from the opera "Lakme" by Leo Delibes became not only one of the composer's most successful pieces, but also one of the most famous tunes ...

Ten years ago, the Spoleto Festival got some good news. Repeated and acrimonious disagreements between the festival's octogenarian founder, the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, and the Spoleto board of ...