Flower Duet by Léo Delibes

The Flower Duet (French: Duo des fleurs) is a famous duet for sopranos from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé. The duet takes place in Act 1, performed by Lakmé and her servant Mallika as they go to gather flowers by a river. The piece is frequently used in advertisements and movies, and is popular in concerts.

Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, with a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. The score, written in 1881–1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra Comique in Paris.

Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891) was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage. His most notable works include the ballets Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876) as well as the operas Le roi l'a dit (1873) and Lakmé (1883). His work is known to have influenced composers such as Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, and Debussy. The 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."