Lakmé, Opera Holland Park, review: About as authentically Indian as a tikka masala but perfectly cooked nevertheless
Billy Connolly famously defined an intellectual as “someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger”. It’s a joke reincarnated for a new generation with the Flower Duet from Delibes’s Lakmé, now so insistently and indelibly associated with British Airways.