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
Giselle
Dmitry Gudanov
Albrecht
Vitaly Biktimirov
Hans
Maria Allash
Myrtha
Elena Bukanova
Berthe
Ekaterina Barykina
Bathilde
Victoria Osipova
Two Wilis
Olga Kishnyova
Two Wilis
Alexei Loparevich
Duke
Vladislav Lantratov
Wilfreed
Chinara Alizade
Peasants pas de deux
Andrei Bolotin
Peasants pas de deux
Yulia Grebenshchikova
Giselle's friend
Anna Okuneva
Giselle's friend
Anna Tikhomirova
Giselle's friend
