The Flower Duet

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"The Flower Duet" (Sous le dôme épais) is a famous duet from Léo Delibes's opera Lakmé. It is best known for its use in British Airways TV commercials and TV shows and movies including:

Superman Returns
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
The Hunger
The American President
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Meet the Parents
True Romance
Jane Austen's Mafia!
Carlito's Way
Eight Days a Week

The music is also in the game Saint's Row, as well as being sampled on the David Usher song Black, Black Heart.

Greek composer Yanni also used this song as the basis of the composition Aria.

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Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin
À la rose s'assemble
Sur la rive en fleurs riant au matin

Doucement glissons de son flot charmant
Suivons le courant fuyant
Dans l'onde frémissante
D'une main nonchalante
Viens, gagnons le bord,
Où la source dort et
L'oiseau, l'oiseau chante.

Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin,
Ah! descendons
Ensemble!

Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin
À 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'onde frémissante
D'une main nonchalante
Viens, gagnons le bord
Où la source dort et
L'oiseau, l'oiseau chante.

Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin,
Ah! descendons
Ensemble!

Translation

Under the thick dome where the white jasmine
With the roses entwined together
On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning

Gently floating on its charming risings
On the river's current
On the shining waves
One hand reaches
Reaches for the bank
Where the spring sleeps and
The bird, the bird sings.

Under the thick dome where the white jasmine
Ah! calling us
Together!

Under the thick dome where white jasmine
With the roses entwined together
On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning
Let us descend together
Gently floating on its charming risings,
On the river's current
On the shining waves,
One hand reaches,
Reaches for the bank,
Where the spring sleeps,
And the bird, the bird sings.

Under the thick dome where the white jasmine
Ah! calling us
Together!