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.
Top Billed Cast
Svetlana Lunkina
Giselle
Dmitry Gudanov
Albrecht
Vitaly Biktimirov
Hans
Maria Allash
Myrtha
Elena Bukanova
Berthe
Featured Crew
Yuri Grigorovich
Choreographer
Mikhail Sokolov
Lighting Design
Pavel Klinichev
Conductor
Simon Virsaladze
Set Designer
Jean Coralli
Choreographer
Vincent Bataillon
Director
Marius Petipa
Choreographer
Jules Perrot
Choreographer
Simon Virsaladze
Costume Design
Adolphe Adam
Original Music Composer
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
Original Story
Heinrich Heine
Original Story