
Giselle
Giselle, originally titled Giselle, ou les Wilis, is a romantic ballet in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon, it... Wikipedia
- Native title: Giselle, ou les Wilis
- Choreographer: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot
- Music: Adolphe Adam
- Libretto: Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Théophile Gautier
- Based on: Heinrich Heine's De l'Allemagne, Victor Hugo's "Fantômes" from Les Orientales
- Premiere: 28 June 1841, Paris, France
- Original ballet company: Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique
- Characters: Giselle, a peasant girl, Albrecht, Duke of Silesia, Hilarion, a gamekeeper, Berthe, Giselle's mother, Bathilde, a princess, Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis
- Setting: Rhineland during the Middle Ages
- Created for: Carlotta Grisi
- Genre: Romantic ballet
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