La danza (The Dance) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
The title page describes it as a componimento drammatico pastorale ("dramatic pastoral composition") in one act.
The opera was written to celebrate the eighth birthday of Empress Maria Theresa's son Leopold and first performed at Laxenburg on 5 May 1755.
Pietro Metastasio had originally written the opera's Italian-language libretto for the composer Giuseppe Bonno in 1744.
[2] As the sun sets, the shepherd Tirsi says farewell to his beloved Nice, who is leaving to take part in a dance.