It is named after Léo Delibes, a 19th-century French composer of ballets, operas, and other stage works.
He was also the author of portrait busts and statues of Victor Hugo, Léo Delibes, Ferdinand Fabre and a large output of classical subjects.
Delibes also composed various operas, the last of which, the lush orientalizing Lakmé (1883), contains, among many dazzling numbers, the famous coloratura showpiece known as the Légende du Paria or Bell Song ("Où va la jeune Indoue?") and The Flower Duet ("Sous le dôme épais"), a barcarolle that Patricia Rozema made famous in her film "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing" and later used by British Airways commercials.
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His brother Michel Delibes migrated to Spain; he was the grandfather of Spanish writer Miguel Delibes.
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She made her debut in France in the title role of Delibes's Lakmé, at the Opéra de Rennes, which she has sung at St Etienne, Bielefeld, Rouen and the Cairo Opera House.
Study in operatic composition followed, first with Richard Genée, in Vienna, and then with Léo Delibes, in Paris.
Finally in 1917, Akhundzadeh's Zulmun natijasi ("The Consequence of Evil"; based on Léo Delibes's opera Lakmé) was staged at the Taghiyev Theatre in Baku (nowadays Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy).