Giselle

Production de 1990 - Jean Coralli et Jules Perrot

• Conductor

  Benjamin Shwartz

• 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

Giselle, the ultimate romantic ballet, marks the apogee of a new aesthetic. Diaphanous tutus, white gauze, tulle and tarlatan flood the stage. In a phantasmagorical transfiguration of a tragedy, the Wilis add to the illusion of immateriality. First performed at the Académie royale de Musique on June 28 1841, the ballet travelled to Russia and disappeared from the repertoire before being reintroduced back into France in 1910. Today, Patrice Bart and Eugène Polyakov’s version, faithful to Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot’s original choreography, continues to confirm the ballet’s early success. Luminous and terrestrial scenes vie with nocturnal and spectral visions in which dance becomes the language of the soul and the ballerina’s ethereal presence seems to defy gravity.

Les Étoiles, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra
Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris

Giselle

Production de 1990 - Jean Coralli et Jules Perrot

• Giselle

  Alice Renavand

• Albrecht

  Mathieu Ganio

• Myrtha

  Roxane Stojanov

• Hilarion

  Axel Ibot

• Pas de deux (paysanne)

  Naïs Duboscq

• Pas de deux (paysan)

  Mathieu Contat

• Bathilde

  Aurélia Bellet

• Wilfried

  Adrien Bodet

• Adrien Couvez

• Hugo Vigliotti

• Maxime Thomas

• Le Duc de Courlande

  Grégory Dominiak

• 2 Willis

  Charline Giezendanner

• Aurélia Bellet