Swansea City Opera (formerly Opera Box)

They are delighted to welcome back the critically acclaimed Swansea City Opera, with their production of Lakmé set in India during the Raj of the 1880?s.

Sung in English and accompanied by a chamber orchestra.

Delibes’ musical score stands out as both delicious and ravishing in this beautiful jewel of an opera.

Lakmé is perhaps best known for the famous Flower Duet, which has become one of the most familiar numbers any composer, in any genre, has ever written. It’s even been used by our national airline on TV ads as the peaceful accompaniment to a jetliner floating through wispy clouds!

Like other French operas of the period, it captures the ambience of the Orient seen through Western eyes and, topically for today, tells of religious tensions and conflict leading to personal sacrifice, heartbreak and death.