Most of us would be hard pressed to describe the characters, plot or musical development of Delibes’s three-act opera Lakmé. Its resurgent popularity in the 1990s was down to one thing: the use of one ...
If marches and waltzes are inherently Viennese, Mazurkas are intrinsically Polish and nocturnes are forever Irish at their core, much of the world’s greatest ballet music will always be associated ...
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After early lessons with his mother, Delibes entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 12 but this precocious start led only to jobs as organist and accompanist (Adolphe Adam, the composer of ...
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