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Ballet suite
Running time:
15 minutes.
Danza delle ore
Amilcare Ponchielli
Danza delle ore

Ballet suite from the opera "La Gioconda".

   

 

 

Time absorbs everything and everyone – unshakable states and civilizations, great and ordinary people's lives.

Binding of passions and emotions that distinguish the characters of the opera "La Gioconda" by A. Ponkielli are symbolically depicted the image of the clock, where every minute absorbs one's destiny.

Through a lightning fast dance, compressed in time, the story of this great Italian opera - the impulse to happiness to be loved and to love a beautiful woman Laura Adorno, wife of Chief Justice Badoero Alvise Venice is delivered. Her heart went wild for Genoese patrician Enzo Grimaldi, who also has a great feeling towards her.

But time does not choose better or worse situations. The clock also measures the fate of a Venetian singer Gioconda, who is also in love with Enzo Grimaldi. She tells Alvise Badoero about the situation, and Venetian referee expelled the young Genoese patrician from the city.

Gioconda, realizing her act, decides to help the lovers to escape from Venice. They are persecuted by terrible Alvise Badoero trying to deal with Laura and Enzo.

But the unstoppable watch erases his timeframe from La Gioconda.