Running
time: 210 minutes (To be confirmed)
Cast:
To be confirmed
Creatives:
Choreography MARIUS PETIPA after JEAN CORALLI and
JULES PERROT
Music ADOLPHE ADAM Edited by LARS PAYNE
Conductor
VELLO PAHN
Scenario THÉOPHILE GAUTIER after HEINRICH
HEINE
Production
and Additional Choreography
PETER WRIGHT
Designer
JOHN MACFARLANE
Original
Lighting JENNIFER
TIPTON Re-created by DAVID FINN
Synopsis:
The peasant
girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is
actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her
spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing any
man who crosses their path in a dance to the death. Wracked with guilt,
Albrecht visits Giselle’s grave, where he must face the Wilis – and Giselle’s
ghost.
Peter
Wright’s 1985 production of this quintessential Romantic ballet is a classic of
The Royal Ballet repertory. Set to Adolphe Adam’s evocative score and with
atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane, Giselle conjures up the earthly
and otherworldly realms in a tale of love, betrayal and redemption.