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The handbill for the ballet we saw, 'Excelsior'. This is a big, brash ballet extravaganza which features man's progress, through science, toward a better future. It was created by Luigi Manzotti in 1881 just after Italian Reunification and is accompanied by Romualdo Marenco's bombastic score.