love-duet

Cranko created the piece for Sadler's Wells theatre ballet in 1953, and the final love-duet is full of tropes that both Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan would later use in their own ballets: floor-skimming supported jetés, lifts in which the heroine wraps around her partner's back, a sequence in which he tenderly lifts her from pointe to pointe.

Birmingham Royal Ballet: Pointes of View Luke Jennings 2010

This is a video in which footage of GW Bush and Tony Blair are very cleverly cut together such that they appear to be lipsyching a soppy love-duet to one another.

Boing Boing: February 16, 2003 - February 22, 2003 Archives 2003

Rhine in boats, whose lovely variations remind us of quaint old airs of bye-gone days, -- the chorus of the stone-masons in the second act, and the love-duet in the third are brilliant gems in Becker's music.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

The best parts of the opera are the choruses of the village maidens in the first act, the charming cradle song, the violin solo and the love-duet in the second and the splendid gipsy music in the last act.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

This love-duet was resumed and presently, when the lovers had made their exit, Ritmagar was seen gleefully watching while the red sun dropped slowly down the sky, sinking at last below the rim of the lake.

The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

After the charming love-duet above mentioned, Pietro once more offers his love to Maritana, but in vain.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

She succeeds easily, and there ensues a charming love-duet, during which they are surprised by the jealous Schlemihl.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

A long and exalted love-duet follows, then the Indian heaven opens and the

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

Rossi was the divinest of lovers, in spite of his forty years and his stalwart proportions, and the balcony scene was an exquisite love-duet that needed not the aid of music to lend it sweetness.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

Here ensues a charming love-duet, accompanied, originally enough, by a song from the old barber, who watches before the house.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley