Music | Adolphe Adam |
Libretto | Theophile Gautier, Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges |
Choreography | Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa |
Conductor |
Anton Grishanin
Roman Kaloshin
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Set Designer | Vladimir Arefiev |
Costume Designer | Vladimir Arefiev |
Lighting Designer | Ildar Bederdinov |
Company that treated the ballet as the crown jewel of the classical repertory.
Lewis Segal, “Los Angeles Times”
Conductor |
Anton Grishanin
Roman Kaloshin
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Giselle |
Oksana Kardash
Erika Mikirticheva
Natalia Somova
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Albrecht |
Denis Dmitriev
Ivan Mikhalev
Georgi Smilevski
Dmitry Sobolevsky
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Hans |
Stanislav Bukharaev
Alexey Lyubimov
Roman Malenko
Sergey Manuylov
Mikhail Pukhov
Georgi Smilevski
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Myrtha |
Maria Beck
Ekaterina Ivanova
Oksana Kardash
Natalia Kleymenova
Maria Mysheva
Anastasia Pershenkova
Olga Sizykh
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Classical Duet |
Zhanna Gubanova
Oksana Kardash
Anastasia Limenko
Roman Malenko
Sergey Manuylov
Olga Sizykh
Elena Solomyanko
Innokenty Yuldashev
Evgeny Zhukov
Marina Zolotova
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Two Willis |
Maria Beck
Inessa Bikbulatova
Ekaterina Ivanova
Natalia Kleymenova
Erika Mikirticheva
Anna Okuneva
Anastasia Pershenkova
Ksenia Shevtsova
Olga Sizykh
Elena Solomyanko
Marianna Urusova
Polina Zayarnaya
Marina Zolotova
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Bathilde |
Daria Darienko
Maria Potapova
Ksenia Zheltova
Polina Zayarnaya
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Duke |
Stanislav Bukharaev
Ivan Mikhalev
Mikhail Pukhov
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Wilfrid |
Leonid Blinkov
Roman Miller
Denis Perkovsky
Alexander Seleznev
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Berthe |
Yana Bolshanina
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Libretto by Theophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges
Choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Mauris Petipa
Revised version by Tatiana Legat
"Giselle" is one of the most romantic tales about love. The ballet is based on the ancient tale about girls died before their weddings (so called wilis).
Act I
A small, peaceful village, bathed in sunlight. It is inhabited by simple, artless people. Giselle, a young peasant girl, is rejoicing in the sun, the blue sky, the singing of the birds and, most of all, in the happiness of pure, trusting love which has lit up her life. She is in love and is confident that she is loved. The gamekeeper, who is in love with Giselle, tries in vain to persuade her that Albert, her loved one, is not a peasant at all but a nobleman in disguise and that he is deceiving her.
The gamekeeper manages to steal into the cottage which Albert is renting in the village and here he finds a silver sword with a coat of arms on it. Now the gamekeeper knows for sure that Albert is concealing his noble origins.
A party of distinguished noblemen, attended by a sumptuous suite, seek rest and refreshment in the village after the hunt. The peasants give their guests a cordial welcome.
Albert is embarrassed by this unexpected meeting: he tries to hide the fact he knows them for, in their company, is his betrothed, Bathilde. Meanwhile the gamekeeper shows everyone Albert’s sword and, unmasking him, tells them of the latter’s deceit. Giselle is shocked to the core by the perfidy of her loved one. The pure, crystal-clear world of her faith, hopes and dreams has been destroyed. She goes mad and dies.
Act II
Night-time. The ghostly forms of the Wilis, died brides, appear among the graves of the village church yard which is bathed in moonlight. "Dressed in bridal gowns and garlands of flowers…The irresistibly beautiful Wilis danced to the light of the moon. And as they felt the time given them for dancing was running out and that they had again to return to their icy graves, their dancing became more and more impassioned and rapid…" (Heinrich Heine).
The Wilis catch sight of the gamekeeper who, suffering from pangs of conscience, has come to visit Giselle’s grave. At the command of Mirta, the unrelenting Queen of the Wilis, the Wilis encircle the gamekeeper and make him dance until he drops lifeless, to the ground.
Albert too, is unable to forget Giselle. And, at dead of night, he comes to her grave. The Wilis immediately encircle the youth. Albert is now threatened by the same horrifying fate as the gamekeeper. But the shadow of Giselle now appears and her eternal and self-sacrificing love protects and saves Albert from the anger of the Wilis.
The ghostly, white forms of the Wilis vanish with the first rays of the rising sun. And Giselle’s ethereal shadow vanishes too, but Giselle will always be alive in Albert’s memory - the ever-present regret for a lost love, a love that is stronger than death.
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