Giselle

Production de 1990 - Jean Coralli et Jules Perrot

• Conductor

  Patrick Lange

• Choreography

  Jean Coralli

• Choreography

  Jules Perrot

• Music

  Adolphe Adam
  (1803-1856)

• Libretto

  Théophile Gautier

• Libretto

  Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges

• Adaptation

  Patrice Bart

• Adaptation

  Eugène Polyakov

• Set design

  Alexandre Benois

• Sets realized by

  Silvano Mattei

• Costume design

  Alexandre Benois

• Costumes realized by

  Claudie Gastine

Diaphanous tutus, pointe shoes, white gauze, tulle: Giselle marks the pinnacle of romanticism. In a bucolic landscape, a young girl dies of love and is transformed into a spirit that haunts the forest. Taken in by the Wilis, she enters an ethereal world where dance is the language of the soul. Her lover Albrecht, distraught, pursues this ghost at the risk of his life. The ballerinas, with their aerial presence, defy him just as they do gravity. The mist-shrouded set reveals spectral visions enhanced by Adolphe Adam’s bewitching score. Premiered at the Royal Academy of Music on 28 June 1841, the ballet travelled to Russia and disappeared from the repertoire before its return to France in 1910. Today, in Patrice Bart and Eugène Polyakov’s version, faithful to the original choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, the ballet continues to offer us its magic.

The Étoiles, the Premières Danseuses, the Premiers Danseurs and the Paris Opera Corps de Ballet
Marianela Núñez, Principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, will be performing the role of Giselle on May 25th and 27th, 2024.

The Paris Opera Orchestra

Giselle

Production de 1990 - Jean Coralli et Jules Perrot

• Giselle

  Sae Eun Park

• Albrecht

  Germain Louvet

• Myrtha

  Silvia Saint-Martin

• Hilarion

  Cyril Mitilian

• Pas de deux (paysanne)

  Luciana Sagioro

• Pas de deux (paysan)

  Manuel Garrido