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Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (1836-1891) was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage. Delibes achieved true fame in 1870 with the success of his ballet Coppélia; its title referred to a mechanical dancing doll that distracts a village swain from his beloved and appears to come to life. His other ballet is Sylvia (1876). Delibes also composed various operas, the last of which, the lush orientalizing Lakmé (1883), contains, among many dazzling numbers including The Flower Duet ("Sous le dôme épais"), a barcarolle that British Airways commercials made familiar to non-opera-goers in the 1990s. His ballet Sylvia was of special interest to Tchaikovsky, who wrote of Delibes' score, " ... what charm, what wealth of melody! It brought me to shame, for had I known of this music, I would have never written Swan Lake."

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