VISIONS

We are in the forest, just outside the Sacred Temple. A large entourage of priests and bayadères makes their appearance on stage to participate in the fire worship ceremony. Among them, Nikiya, whose hypnotic dance, completely bewitches the Great Brahman. Such is his magnetism, his power of seduction, that from that moment he accepts to give up everything for his love. Either to his vow of chastity. Whether it is to his enormous wealth… The spectators stir. (Act I, Scene I)