Giselle

Estreno: Sábado 11 de mayo 2019

Teatre Joventut. L´Hospitalet

Música: Adolphe Adam y Minkus
Adaptación coreográfica: Roser Muñoz i Joan Boix, según original de Jules Perot, Jean Coralli y Petipa
Libreto de Théophile Gautier
Interprets: Bailarines del curso de formación del Centro de Danza de Cataluña
Duración: 90 min (entreacto)
 

 

"Giselle" is a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon. The ghost-filled ballet tells the tragic, romantic story of a beautiful young peasant girl who falls for the flirtations of the deceitful and disguised nobleman Albrecht. When the ruse is revealed, the fragile Giselle dies of heartbreak, and Albrecht must face the otherworldly consequences of his careless seduction. One of the world's most-often performed classical ballets, it is also one of its most challenging to dance.

Librettists Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier took their inspiration for the plot from a prose passage about the Wilis in De l'Allemagne, by Heinrich Heine, and from a poem called "Fantômes" in Les Orientales by Victor Hugo.