[4][5][6] Following a brief break with the curtains lowered,[1] the women switch to romantic tutus and pointe shoes,[5] while the men only take off the gloves.
[11] Throughout Liebeslieder Walzer, the four couples display different kinds of emotions and subtle behavior, which is regarded as the most difficult part for the dancers.
"[13] Alastair Macaulay, a New York Times critic who broke down the first section, wrote that the ballet is about "adult love and its attendant shadows: tender, often rapturous, exceptionally poignant."
"[5] A soprano, a mezzo-soprano, a tenor, a baritone and two pianists playing in four hands perform on stage left.
[14] Apart from the final song, which is set to poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, all the lyrics are taken from Georg Friedrich Daumer's poets.
[13] In 2020, in response to performance cancellations due to the coronavirus, New York City Ballet released two extracts of Liebeslieder Walzer online.