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Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle (2011)
Directed by Vincent Bataillon
· 1h 49m
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.
Cast
Svetlana Lunkina
Giselle
Dmitry Gudanov
Albrecht
Vitaly Biktimirov
Hans
Maria Allash
Myrtha
E
Elena Bukanova
Berthe
E
Ekaterina Barykina
Bathilde
V
Victoria Osipova
Two Wilis
O
Olga Kishnyova
Two Wilis
Alexei Loparevich
Duke
Vladislav Lantratov
Wilfreed
Chinara Alizade
Peasants pas de deux
A
Andrei Bolotin
Peasants pas de deux
Crew
- Director
- Vincent Bataillon
- Original Music Composer
- Adolphe Adam
Details
- Release date
- 2011-01-23
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Original language
- XX
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Russia
- Production
- Bolshoi Theatre