Leo Delibes The Flower Duet HQ

All music and images copyrights belong to original artists and distributors. Performed by Natalie Dessay (Soprano) Delohine Haidan (Mezzo Soprano) The Flower Duet (French: Duo des fleurs, Sous le dôme épais) is a famous duet for sopranos from Léo Delibes opera Lakmé, first performed in Paris in 1883. The duet takes place in act 1 of the threeact opera, between characters Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant Mallika, as they go to gather flowers by a river. The duet is frequently used in advertisements and films and is popular as a concert piece. It was adapted for the theme Aria on air for the British Airways face advertisements of the 1980s by music composers Yanni and Malcolm McLaren. David Usher used a sample of the record in his 2001 song Black Black