intermezzo

intermezzo, välisoitto A short piece of music or act in the interval of the main spectacle; a theatrical interlude.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 8:

She had ample time, too, to change for the next scene, which started with a longish intermezzo staged by a ballet company whose services Scotty had engaged ....