![]() The villagers welcome the party, offer them drinks, and perform several dances. Albrecht hurries away, knowing he would be recognized and greeted by her, exposing him as a nobleman. She discourages a relationship between Giselle and Loys, thinking Hilarion would be a better match, and disapproves of her fondness for dancing, due to the strain on her heart.Ī party of noblemen seeking refreshment following the rigors of the hunt arrive in the village with Bathilde among them. ![]() Her mother, Berthe, is very protective of her, as she has a weak heart that leaves her in delicate health. He tries to convince her that her beau can't be trusted, but she ignores his warnings. Hilarion, a local gamekeeper, is also in love with Giselle and is highly suspicious of the newcomer who has won her affections. With the help of his squire, he hides his fine attire, hunting horn, and sword before coaxing her out of her house to romance her as the harvest festivities begin. He disguises himself as a humble villager called "Loys" to court the enchanting and innocent Giselle, who knows nothing of his true identity. Duke Albrecht of Silesia, a young nobleman, has fallen in love with a shy, beautiful peasant girl named Giselle, despite being engaged to Bathilde, the Duke of Courland's daughter. The ballet opens on a sunny autumnal morning in the Rhineland during the Middle Ages. One of the world's most-often performed classical ballets, it is also one of the most challenging to dance. The traditional choreography that has been passed down to the present day derives primarily from the revivals staged by Marius Petipa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Imperial Ballet in St. ![]() The role of Giselle was created for Carlotta Grisi as her debut piece for the Paris public, and she was the only ballerina to dance it at the Paris Opera for many years. Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot created the original choreography. 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. By saving him from the Wilis, Giselle also saves herself from becoming one of them. ![]() They gain their power in numbers as they effortlessly move through dramatic patterns and synchronized movements and control the stage with their long tulle dresses and stoic expressions, creating an ethereal atmosphere that builds as they gradually close in on Albrecht. Led by Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis, they target Albrecht when he comes to mourn at Giselle's grave, but her great love frees him from their grasp. ![]() After her death, she is summoned from her grave into the vengeful, deadly sisterhood of the Wilis, the ghosts of unmarried women who died after being betrayed by their lovers and take revenge in the night by dancing men to death by exhaustion (a popular theme in Romantic-era ballets). The ghost-filled ballet tells the tragic, romantic story of a beautiful young peasant girl named Giselle and a disguised nobleman named Albrecht, who fall in love, but when his true identity is revealed by his rival, Hilarion, Giselle goes mad and dies of heartbreak. It became hugely popular and was staged at once across Europe, Russia, and the United States. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon, it was first performed by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris on 28 June 1841, with Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi as Giselle. Giselle ( / dʒ ɪ ˈ z ɛ l/ French: ), originally titled Giselle, ou les Wilis ( French:, Giselle, or The Wilis}), is a romantic ballet (" ballet-pantomime") in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. ![]()
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