Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet) (2011)
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 LunkinaGiselleDimitri GudanovAlbrecht
Vitaly BiktimirovHans
Maria AllashMyrthaElena BukanovaBertheEkaterina BarykinaBathildeVictoria OsipovaTwo WilisOlga KishnyovaTwo Wilis
Alexei LoparevichDuke
Vladislav LantratovWilfreed
Chinara AlizadePeasants pas de deuxAndrei BolotinPeasants pas de deuxMovie DNA
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What is Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet) about?
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.
How long is Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet)?
Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet) has a runtime of 109 minutes.