Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle

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.

• Release date
• January 23, 2011
• Runtime
• 109 min
• Director
• Vincent Bataillon

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