Natalie Dessay - Delibes: LakmeOpera audiences in 19th century Paris may never have visited India, but they loved to dream about it. After the successes enjoyed by Lespcheurs de perles and Le roi de Lahore Delibes knew what he was doing when he chose to set an adaptation of Pierre Loti's exotic Indian novel Rarahu and duly scored a hit with his opera Lakm at the Opra Comique in 1883. The opera is nothing without a star in the title role.

the seventh in a series put on by the Brazilian Memory Project

It is good that artists take it up in their interpretations and bring it back to the listeners

slippery guitar and buff bass

Their self-titled debut album presents a sound that is an amalgamation of celebrated country lyricists such as Willie Nelson

His skillful formal mastery and his unquenchable thirst for drama derived from opera

With J Mascis on guitar & lead vocals

The Snow Is Falling 9

These recordings have been digitally remastered and presented here

Zak Starkey

to hotel rooms

Huey 'Piano' Smith's Sinus Blues not to forget

Simon Farnaby