Giselle
Ballet in 2 acts

Composer - Adolphe Adam
Design - Simon Virsaladze
Libretto by Theophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges
Choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Mauris Petipa
Choreographic version -Yuri Grigorovich

"Giselle" is a romantic tale about a passionate and destructive love, the madness and tragedy of a young peasant woman deceived in love by a young aristocrat. Also it is famous for its unique combination of dance and pantomime, elevated style. All that makes the ballet to be one of the best romantic choreography masterpieces. The best ballet dancers of the Bolshoi Theater perform the Giselle ballet.

The ballet is based on the ancient tale about girls died before their weddings (so called wilis). Giselle the young peasant woman loves Albert. But he keeps back his noble birth from Giselle. Hans, a gamekeeper enamored of Giselle, reveals Albrecht’s deception. Giselle goes crazy and dies. Hans and Albrecht exhausted of their guilt come to the Giselle’s grave at night. Cruel wilis are very dangerous, they kill everybody who comes to the cemetery. Hans perished but Giselle saves Albrecht.

The best ballet actors take part in this excellent ballet..

The protagonists:
Count Albrecht - Dmitry Gudanov/ Vladimir Neporozhny
Giselle - Inna Petrova/ Nadezhda Gracheva
Hans, the gamekeeper - Ruslan Pronin/ Mark Peretokin
Myrtha - Anastasia Volochkova/ Ekaterina Shipulina

Bathilde, Albrecht's bride - Ekaterina Barykina/ Maria Volodina
Duke - Andrei Sitnikov
Wilfreed - Andrei Melanin/Maxim Valukin
Berthe, Giselle's mother - Eugenia Volochkova/ Svetlana Tigleva

Two wilis - Olga Suvorova, Anastasia Yatsenko/ Anna Leonova, Natalia Maladina

Pas de Deux - Joo Yun Bae, Andrei Bolotin/ Anastasia Stashkevich, Vyacheslav Lopatin

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