http://www.imdb.com/search/text?realm=title&field=soundtracks&q=flower+duet
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This is a duet for sopranos from Léo Delibes’s opera Lakmé, which, much like “The Pearl Fishers” by Georges Bizet, explores exoticism and orientalism. The Duet, whose actual title is Sous le dôme épais, takes place in the first act of the opera, and is sung by characters Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika, as they go gather flowers by the river and discuss about jasmine flowers entwined with roses. In recent years, this duet gained enormous popularity also because it was mentioned in E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey— along with Thomas Tallis’s renaissance chorale work “Spem in Alium”— as one of the favourite pieces of the soft-hearted sadistic Christian
http://www.cmuse.org/ten-sensual-classics-because-yes-classical-music-can-be-sexy/
2015 Season
The Opera Holland Park 2015 Season is announced:
Lakmé Léo Delibes
New productionJuly 9, 11, 15, 18, 23, 27 (The Christine Collins Young Artists performance) , 29, 31 at 7.30pm
