The Hunger-Lakme-Léo Delibes

I've been having incredibly lucid dreams lately featuring the music from the Hunger. Here is Lakme by Léo Delibes, the other song in my dreams. I bought the vinyl to the soundtrack as well as the opera simply because I fell in love with "Viens, Mallika, les liens en fleurs" (The Flower Duet) in Act 1". Below is the French and it's translation.

"Viens, Mallika, les liens en fleurs" (The Flower Duet)

Sous le dôme épais, où le blanc jasmin
À la rose sassemble
Sur la rive en fleurs, riant au matin
Viens, descendons ensemble.

Doucement glissons de son flot charmant
Suivons le courant fuyant
Dans londe frémissante
Dune main nonchalante
Viens, gagnons le bord,
Où la source dort
Et loiseau, loiseau chante.

"Under the thick dome, where the white jasmine
Gathers with the rose,
On the riverbank in bloom, laughing in the morning,
Come, let us go down together.

"Gently let us slip from the pleasant rising flow,
Let us follow the fleeting current
In the shimmering stream,
Without any care,
Come, let us reach the bank,
Where the spring waters slumber
And the bird, the bird, she sings."

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[matheusmarchetti]

Beautiful movie, beautiful song, beautiful video

[beanfromex]

Thank you

[kissherlips1]

When I first saw this movie in the late 80s, I searched everywhere for a used copy of the soundtrack. It took months until I found a little record shop in the Village that was almost a basement that had one copy. I played that over and over and over again.

[TheNYPASS]

i know this movie ..and especially the hot scene with deneuve and sarandon= superb..;)

[muhi706]

Lakme-Léo Delibes

[Anaclois]

@matheusmarchetti I agree it is beautiful and wonderful song. I enjoyed the movie too.

[1973barbarossa]

@TheRoxie08 The Hunger



[vicente3831]

grandisima cancion,expectacular y muy buena pelicula, en español se titula "el ansia"

[AbigailReggieLove]

Thanks, music is beautiful and movie is great, i love it:)

[clubmidnightsun]

it is an absolutely beautiful aria. I have waited and waited to hear this piece performed live and I got such a surprise when I found out that the Sarasota Opera included it in its season. Let me tell you, I have lived.

[flagascaro]

On the opening nite of "country strong" in US: No, Gwyneth, THATS how it's done, little girl. Long live Marianne, the most beautiful woman in the world.

[operashic]

I love this song so much! I've spent hours playing this on my piano :)