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2024 / AROP evening / Ballet
23 May.

Giselle

    Palais Garnier

    19h30

    Duration
    2h10

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h25
  • 2nd part
    20h45
  • End of the performance
    21h40
  • Supper
    21h55
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.

Giselle

Production de 1990 - Jean Coralli et Jules Perrot

  • Music

    Adolphe Adam
    (1803-1856)

  • Conductor
    Patrick Lange

  • Choreography

    Jean Coralli

  • Choreography

    Jules Perrot

  • 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

Cast

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Sae Eun
Park

Giselle

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Germain
Louvet

Albrecht

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Hugo
Marchand

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Silvia
Saint-Martin

Myrtha

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Cyril
Mitilian

Hilarion

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Luciana
Sagioro

Pas de deux (paysanne)

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Manuel
Garrido

Pas de deux (paysan)

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