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Now we are going to do one of the most
famous and popular ballets ever written.
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"The Dance of the Hours"
from Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda".
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It's a pageant of the hours of the day.
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All this takes place in the great hall
with its garden beyond...
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...of the palace of Duke Alvise,
a Venetian nobleman.