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Thank you for the beautiful translation, which I'd never before seen. But having been ignorant of the words & having never seen the entire work performed, I'd always imagined the duet to be an exchange between two flowering plants, not humans. That might seem strange to many but I was brought up to view plants & all else that's called "Nature" as being as alive as humans but with each form of life having its own way of seeing & living & interacting with others. This view of life is sometimes glimpsed in western or modern society, but English & other Eur. languages don't contain terms that succinctly or completely describe it. And I'm not sure if any other "old world" languages contain terms which describe this view that is a major part of most, if not all, pre-Columbian languages of N. Am. What can be succinctly described in classic Nahuatl or in the native languages classified as Iroquoian or Muskogean or in the hundreds of known native languages are the general ideas re: the kinds of animals & plants & the various kinds of mountains & parts of the "landscape," etc, each with their own attributes & ways, with each having its own way of living & interacting with others, with each also contributing to the whole of life we call "Nature" or "the Earth." Somehow I had always imagined something more like the conversations found in Ravel's "L'enfant de Savauge," his opera with lyrics written by Colette. In this opera, teapots & squirrels & all else in the small child's room turn on him & tell him how badly he has treated them in his fit of temper. That is how I'd imagined the flowers in this song, except of course that the two flowers (part of two living plants) are expressing their love & adoration for one another. In many performances I've seen online, the duet is sung by two women & in at least one recording the two women are dressed in flower costume. And in flower costume they sing & sway about in ways that look as if they are expressing their mutual adoration. Although the actual poem is quite beautiful, I can't help but feel a bit disappointed to find the duet to be a love song sung by a human couple. No doubt the opera is wonderful & the duet beautiful as an idyllic scene of the lovers in a natural setting, but I think I prefer to see the duet as a love song between two flowers.

Thank you! That helps so much. It’s beautiful.

Thank you.

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cheap, so cheap and pretentious

​@@runner0075There's something wrong with you

@@munkeeboi1982 nothing, really nothing, indeed

@@runner0075 Well of course you'd say that. ...so cheap and pretentious.

@@munkeeboi1982 don't feed the troll.

Big Facts

Fr fr this shit bussin

One comment=one hammer+ one nail=Nailed it.

IMO, the performance with Sabine and Marianne is the single best rendition I’ve ever heard

@@fredscott6156That studio recording is indeed the best sound rendition and the best diction combined on this piece.

Same!

Same here

Me, too!!

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Thank you!

That stood out for me above all else.

As an Indian, then you need to listen to Massenet's opera "Le roi de Lahore" - The King of Lahore, (1877), set in 11th-century India. The music is magnificent and the story is very moving.

@@fan2jnrcalso Hasse’s Cleofide!

Had nothing to do with the music!

You would have known it sooner if you had visited the library and improved your mind with the classics.

@@mjremy2605don’t be an ass. That’s not going to win anyone over.

@@mjremy2605 - So... how many local public libraries have Lakme recordings? Three? Seven? I've never seen a Lakme recording anywhere but online, so it's a pretty non-mainstream opera. The aria is famous, but French opera in general is not a thing in most countries that have Western opera. Italian grand opera or Wagner is what most public libraries would have. Or maybe "Ten Best Soprano Arias" might include this one... probably not, though.

​@@mjremy2605 10 years of music school behind, no idea of Lakme. Don't you think that countries that are not France have no their own operas to perform in Theatres? Lakme has been staged here for only years. World is huge

@@mjremy2605 You would be happier & have a functioning social circle if you didn't fool yourself into thinking you were anything but a presumptive know-it-all. You would have known this sooner if you had visited a therapist and improved your mind in general.

It is the basis of the most musical of all fantastic singers, and their ability and execution is sublime. It's other worldly

Idk why it would be surprising. They’re all very theatrical/dramatic genres

@@intrusive-th0t exactly, but also I feel luke a lot of people see those generas and don't even try to understand ya feel?

I composed an entire HS music appreciation class lesson comparing the Queen of the Night aria to Epica and Floor Jansen's duet of Sancta Terra. Old opera was 1000% the punk/metal/gothic scene of its time.

Oh please....all those things you called yourself have the same grandness and complexity of nuance, story and musical libretto.. as Opera...plus the costuming is outrageously lush usually. Besides "Diva" is the label and icon that carries over...ih BTW...what you say about yourself and the taste for Opera youve got? Try Studio Killers..or for that Goth part, Nightclub

it must have been WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!

It's never too late to start learning!

D'une beauté sans mot!

Muchas gracias!!