The miraculously-intact 19th-century choreography of the second act is part of the attraction, but so is the character of Giselle, the peasant girl who, seduced and betrayed by a nobleman in disguise, ...

The two-act ballet Giselle premiered in 1841. Today, this story of a peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman in disguise is considered a classic. There’s a love triangle, a mad scene, and ...

The romantic ballet masterpiece *Giselle* premiered in Paris in 1841 by the Paris Opera Ballet (then known as the Royal ...

Pirouette between true love and betrayal—cruelty and forgiveness—in the Philadelphia Ballet’s modern revival of "Giselle," debuting at the Academy of Music on February 29th and continuing through ...

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“Giselle,” composed by Adolphe Adam, is the oldest continuously-performed ballet in the art form’s history. It tells the story of a peasant woman who dies of a broken heart upon learning her beau is a ...

Lady vampires never go out of style, but calling “Giselle” timeless would be a mistake. Few other ballets have been kept as stylistically pure from start to finish as the Romantic gem created for ...

Costume designer Roberta Guidi di Bagno scrunched her eyes to get a better look at the nearly finished medieval-style jacket on a standing form in Houston Ballet's wardrobe studio. She wanted to see a ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Angel Corella is staging the timeless tale, Giselle, at the Academy of Music. "Giselle is one of the classical ballets of the repertoire," says Corella, Artistic Director of ...

To open its 50th anniversary season, which is also the final one for its artistic director, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will present a restaging of “Giselle,” one of the most popular masterpieces in the ...

If Royal Ballet regulars they might have been even more disappointed to realise they would therefore be seeing two of the company's more underpowered actors, Sarah Lamb and Matthew Golding, headlining ...