About RB&O: Giselle
The Royal Ballet & Opera Cinema Season 2025/26 presents...
Giselle
The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing any man who crosses their path in a dance to the death. Wracked with guilt, Albrecht visits Giselle’s grave, where he must face the Wilis – and Giselle’s ghost.
Peter Wright’s 1985 production of this quintessential Romantic ballet is a classic of The Royal Ballet repertory. Set to Adolphe Adam’s evocative score and with atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane, Giselle conjures up the earthly and otherworldly realms in a tale of love, betrayal and redemption.
Cast
To Be Confirmed
Creatives
Choreography - Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot
Music - Adolphe Adam edited by Lars Payne
Conductor - Vello Pahn
Approximate running time: about 3 and a half hours, including intervals.
This is a cinema event. Broadcast live from The Royal Ballet & Opera House
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