Sumi Jo & Ah-Kyung Lee - Delibes - Lakme - Flower Duet

Lakme - Sumi Jo
Mallika - Ah-Kyung Lee

Conductor - Francesco Colombo
Mostly Philharmonic Orchestra
Seoul, 2008.1.3.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sumi
• Jo
• Coloratura
• soprano
• delibes
• lakme
• flower
• duet
• opera
• mallika

[chinaman612]

@gasizaad. I saw Sumi Jo in London last week at the Cadogan Hall in front of a 30 - 35 piece orchestra. There was no sign of a Mic or speaker anywhere. She was truly breathtaking. The worlds finest performing artist by a long long way. If you you allow her to, she can be life changing. Beautiful both onstage and in her general demeanour.

[smoothiw]

@chinaman612 I see that you were completely fascinated by Sumi Jo last week. I know it well :) I was exactly same 15 years ago. One evening, I heard her voice from TV, having dinner, and said to myself, "What is it? Is it really a human voice? WOW." The moment my love started. One incredible evening when I met someone I would love forever.

[tumaini14]

Wow. Im so impressed that every 5-10 minutes I'm back to this.

[Philippejj]

@RMax304823 Well said, and the story takes place in India!!!

The whole world in a 6 minutes clip!

[musicbykevinahern]

Man! Wow! Magnifcent! Powerful! Pure magic! This is beyond music, it goes far into something far deeper.

[ZeekWolfe1]

This music can not be performed any better. It is the definitve version.

[theperspicacious1]

They are magnificent! Wow blown away.....

[boyoungc]

@chinaman612 I am in tears reading your comment. I agree 100%. Did you also see her singing Ave Maria by Gounod? It is just heavenly.

[MegaAznLove]

I absolutely love the chorus of this song if that is what its called(: Dream High brought me here hehe

[Linternauter]

Truly the best version of this I have heard so far. I was also wondering whether her voice was synthetised by I see form the comment it is all natural. And what utter mastery of french ennunciation, wonderful performance!

[VoiceClassical]

3:41 ... so delightful...

[Reporter40]

This can't be true. So nice.

[pdruiz2005]

Talk about globalization. "Lakme" is about an Indian princess who falls in love with a British soldier during the British Raj. But then some French composer decided to rewrite this story as a French opera. Then 150 years later, a Korean orchestra with Korean opera singers decide to sing the most famous duet aria in said opera in flawless French. On a completely unrelated note: why are most of the orchestra players women? That's unheard of in the West. Do Korean men hate playing instruments?

[putoseiko]

asians are good at everything!