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Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle

Learning that Albrecht, her beloved, is in fact a nobleman engaged to be married to a princess, the naive peasant girl Giselle dies. The Queen of the Wilis—the spirits of deceased young virgins—decides that Albrecht should follow Giselle to the grave, and condemns him to dance until he dies of exhaustion. But Giselle’s spirit dances with him and saves him. With music by Adolphe Adam and a libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, the ballet touches on the great romantic themes: local colour, a pastoral love affair doomed to end in tragedy, a plunge into fantasy and redemption through the power of love.

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  • Svetlana Lunkina

    Svetlana Lunkina

    Giselle

  • Dmitry Gudanov

    Dmitry Gudanov

    Albrecht

  • Vitaly Biktimirov

    Vitaly Biktimirov

    Hans

  • Maria Allash

    Maria Allash

    Myrtha

  • Elena Bukanova

    Elena Bukanova

    Berthe

  • Ekaterina Barykina

    Ekaterina Barykina

    Bathilde

  • Victoria Osipova

    Victoria Osipova

    Two Wilis

  • Olga Kishnyova

    Olga Kishnyova

    Two Wilis

  • Alexei Loparevich

    Alexei Loparevich

    Duke

Overview

Learning that Albrecht, her beloved, is in fact a nobleman engaged to be married to a princess, the naive peasant girl Giselle dies. The Queen of the Wilis—the spirits of deceased young virgins—decides that Albrecht should follow Giselle to the grave, and condemns him to dance until he dies of exhaustion. But Giselle’s spirit dances with him and saves him. With music by Adolphe Adam and a libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, the ballet touches on the great romantic themes: local colour, a pastoral love affair doomed to end in tragedy, a plunge into fantasy and redemption through the power of love.

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