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THE FLOWER DUET from LAKME by Leo Delibes, new translation by Joel Sattler
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This is meant to be singable,
and not as an exact translation.

Still unfinished...


.

THE FLOWER DUET from LAKME by Leo Delibes, new English translation by Joel Sattler

 

LAKME:

Look Mallika! Lianes are in bloom

Casting downward their shadows

Over the sacred stream that flows calm and somber

Awakened by the sound of the song-happy birds!

 

MALLIKA:

Oh dear mistress!

It’s time at last I see you smiling

The time has come and I am reading

What was closed up in the heart of Lakme!

 

LAKMÉ [in duet with Mallika, below]

Dome canopy sweet jasmine

All the roses forever

Flowers in the morn freshly born

Call us to come together

Ah glide along and sing along

The current so strong

The sun so hot the water is shimmering

Hand skimming the surface nonchalantly 

Cutting through the edge

While birds are singing singing sing enchanted

Dome canopy white jasmine

Call us to come together

Please 

 

MALLIKA [in duet with Lakme, above]:

Under dome canopy where the white jasmine

All the roses forever

River flowers in the morn freshly born

Let us both go down together

Gently we glide on and we float along

Follow the current so strong

The sun so hot the water is shimmering

Hand skimming the surface nonchalantly

Come let us reach the edge

Where the spring sleeps

And birds singing, sing enchanted

Under dome canopy where the white jasmine

Let us go down together

 

LAKME:

I, don’t know what overcame me

To fill my heart full of fear

When my father goes down alone to the doomed city

I tremble, I tremble, my dear

 

MALLIKA:

Ganesha will watch over his protege

Up til the pond where the merry do play

With wings of snow swans are swimming

Come let us pick the lotus blue

 

LAKME:

Oh yes, let’s go where white swans are swimming

And let us pick the lotus blue

 

LAKMÉ [in duet with Mallika, below]

Dome canopy sweet jasmine

All the roses forever

Flowers in the morn freshly born

Call us to come together

Ah glide along and sing along

The current so strong

The sun so hot the water is shimmering

Hand skimming the surface nonchalantly 

Cutting through the edge

While birds are singing singing sing enchanted

Dome canopy white jasmine

Call us to come together

Please 

 

MALLIKA [in duet with Lakme, above]:

Under dome canopy where the white jasmine

All the roses forever

River flowers in the morn freshly born

Let us both go down together

Gently we glide on and we float along

Follow the current so strong

The sun so hot the water is shimmering

Hand skimming the surface nonchalantly

Come let us reach the edge

Where the spring sleeps

And birds singing, sing enchanted

Under dome canopy where the white jasmine

Let us go down together

 

 

_______________________  

 

 

Original lyrics in French by Edmond Gondinet :

 

 

LAKMÉ

Viens, Mallika, les lianes en fleurs

Jettent déjà leur ombre

Sur le ruisseau sacré qui coule, calme et sombre,

Eveillé par le chant des oiseaux tapageurs!

 

MALLIKA

Oh! maîtresse,

C’est l’heure ou je te vois sourire,

L’heure bénie où je puis lire

dans le cœur toujours fermé de Lakmé!

 

LAKMÉ [in duet with Mallika, below]

Dôme épais le jasmin,

A la rose s’assemble,

Rive en fleurs frais matin,

Nous appellent ensemble.

Ah! glissons en suivant

Le courant fuyant:

Dans l’on de frémissante,

D’une main nonchalante,

Gagnons le bord,

Où l’oiseau chante, l’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.

Dôme épais, blanc jasmin,

Nous appellent ensemble!

 

MALLIKA

Sous le dôme épais, où le blanc jasmin

A la rose s’assemble,

Sur la rive en fleurs riant au matin,

Viens, descendons ensemble.

Doucement glissons

De son flot charmant

Suivons le courant fuyant:

Dans l’on de frémissante,

D’une main nonchalante,

Viens, gagnons le bord,

Où la source dort

Et l’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.

Sous le dôme épais,

Sous le blanc jasmin,

Ah! descendons ensemble!

 

LAKMÉ

Mais, je ne sais quelle crainte subite,

S’empare de moi,

Quand mon père va seul à leur ville maudite;

Je tremble, je tremble d’effroi!

 

MALLIKA

Pourquoi le Dieu Ganeça le protège,

Jusqu’à l’étang où s’ébattent joyeux

Les cygnes aux ailes de neige,

Allons cueillir les lotus bleus.

 

LAKMÉ

Oui, près des cygnes aux ailes de neige,

Allons cueillir les lotus bleus.

 

 

LAKMÉ [in duet with Mallika, below]

Dôme épais le jasmin,

A la rose s’assemble,

Rive en fleurs frais matin,

Nous appellent ensemble.

Ah! glissons en suivant

Le courant fuyant:

Dans l’on de frémissante,

D’une main nonchalante,

Gagnons le bord,

Où l’oiseau chante, l’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.

Dôme épais, blanc jasmin,

Nous appellent ensemble!

 

MALLIKA

Sous le dôme épais, où le blanc jasmin

A la rose s’assemble,

Sur la rive en fleurs riant au matin,

Viens, descendons ensemble.

Doucement glissons

De son flot charmant

Suivons le courant fuyant:

Dans l’on de frémissante,

D’une main nonchalante,

Viens, gagnons le bord,

Où la source dort

Et l’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.

Sous le dôme épais,

Sous le blanc jasmin,

Ah! descendons ensemble!

 

 

 

 

 

Erika Miklosa (Lakmé) and Bernadett Wiedemann (Mallika)
at the Bela Bartok National Concert Hall, Budapest 2006:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-6Ej2lnwg

 

 

 

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 Reviews of "THE FLOWER DUET from LAKME by Leo Delibes, new translation by Joel Sattler"
Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on June 21, 2010
Oh Sapho ! votre ombre irrésistible est traslucent ici, dans les mots de duo et les connotations cachées...

Georg



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