AnastasiaDavydovaand Anastasia Ermakova prepare to perform in the duettechnical routine synchronisedswimmingevent at theNationalAquaticsCenter during the 2008 BeijingOlympic Games.
In July, fans at this year's Hard Rock Calling event were bemused when Bruce Springsteen and Sir Paul McCartney's microphones were switched off during a duet.
The tenor, a journalist who comes to interview the diva, turns out to be a wannabe opera singer himself, and in a fantasy sequence the two tediously execute the love duet of the diva's opera (about Eleanor of Aquitaine, of all things), a ponderous event with not one scintilla of musical heat or passion (that's the bit that ends with the bells).