In 1854 the village was renamed Bendemeer after a line in the 1817 poem Lalla-Rookh by Thomas Moore: There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream; And the nightingale sings round it all day long.
The title is taken from the name of the heroine of the frame tale, the daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
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It is also the basis of the operas Lalla-Rûkh, festival pageant (1821) by Gaspare Spontini, partly reworked into Nurmahal oder das Rosenfest von Caschmir (1822), Lalla-Roukh by Félicien David (1862), Feramors by Anton Rubinstein (1863), and The Veiled Prophet by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1879).
She also organized and presented cultural programmes, the first being Lalla-Rookh.
The work is based on a German translation (by Schumann and his friend Emil Flechsig) of a tale from Lalla-Rookh by Thomas Moore.
Lalla Ward | Lalla-Rookh | Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco | Lalla-Roukh | Lalla Abla bint Tahar | 2011 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem |
While in Milan, Fanny began her collaboration with Jules Perrot, during which they choreographed Ondine, ou La naïade (1843) as well as Alma (1842) and Lalla Rookh (1846).
In 1814 arrangements were made with Thomas Moore for the publication of Laila Rookh, for which he was paid £3000; and when Archibald Constable failed in 1826, Longmans became the proprietors of the Edinburgh Review.
She is the paternal cousin of King Mohammed VI; daughter of Prince Moualy Ali Alaoui (a cousin of King Mohammed V) and "Princess Lalla Fatima az-Zahra", the elder half-sister of King Hassan II.
Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco (born 28 February 2007) is the second child of Mohammed VI of Morocco and his wife, Princess Lalla Salma.
Princess Lalla Malika (born 14 March 1933) is a sister of the late King Hassan II of Morocco, and daughter of King Mohammed V of Morocco and Lalla Abla bint Tahar.
Laurance Payne, Lalla Ward, and Adrienne Corri were cast members in the horror film Vampire Circus.
Vibeke Lalla Sæther (born June 17, 1943) is a Norwegian media personality best known for hosting children's show Lekestue in the 1970s and 1980s.