Delibes - Lakmé
Opéra Comique, Paris, Tuesday January 14 2014 Conductor: François-Xavier Roth. Production: Lilo Baur. Sets: Caroline Ginet. Costumes: Hanna Sjödin. Lighting: Gilles Gentner. Choreography: Olia Lydaki. Lakmé: Sabine Devieilhe. Gérald: Frédéric Antoun. Mallika: Élodie Méchain. Nilakantha: Paul Gay. Frédéric: Jean-Sébastien Bou. Ellen: Marion Tassou. Rose, Roxane Chalard. Mistress Bentson: Hanna Schaer. Hadji: Antoine Normand. Un Domben: Laurent Deleuil. Un marchand chinois: David Lefort. Le Kouravar: Jean-Christophe Jacques. Dancers: Mai Ishiwata, Olia Lydaki, Anna Dimitratou. Accentus chorus. Les Siècles orchestra. Delibes As for Einstein on the Beach last week, the black market ticket touts were busy outside the Salle Favart before Lakmé , this time presumably because people were eager to hear Sabine Devieilhe in the "British Airways" flower duet and the bell song. I said not so long ago on Facebook, writing about her Rameau disc, that we'd better all soon le...