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.

• Vincent BataillonDirector
• Adolphe AdamOriginal Music Composer

• Svetlana LunkinaGiselle
• Dmitry GudanovAlbrecht
• Vitaly BiktimirovHans
• Maria AllashMyrtha
• Elena BukanovaBerthe
• Ekaterina BarykinaBathilde
• Victoria OsipovaTwo Wilis
• Olga KishnyovaTwo Wilis
• Alexei LoparevichDuke
• Vladislav LantratovWilfreed
• Chinara AlizadePeasants pas de deux
• Andrei BolotinPeasants pas de deux