Lakmé

The third act opens in a jungle where Lakmé is nursing Gerald with the hope of retaining his love.

As Lakmé appears at the shrine, she sings a restless love song, “Why love I thus to stray?”

Madama Butterfly and Lakmé demand a knowledge of national characteristics.

He shone principally in ballet-music, but 'Lakmé' , his best-known opera, is a work of much charm and tenderness.

He has a pretty feeling too for local colour, and the scene in Lakmé's garden is full of a dreamy sensuous charm.