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Giselle by Peter Wright, a must-see classic for dance lovers
«I hope what you're looking for is worth what you're losing»
Frida Kahlo
The renowned Bavarian company kicks off the ballet season at the Gran Teatre del Liceu with Giselle by Peter Wright, a must-see classic for dance lovers.
A seemingly idyllic rural village life by day and, parallel to this, an eerie ghostly dance at night: these two realities characterise the events on stage in Giselle. Peter Wright choreographed the production for the Munich company in 1974, following the tradition of the classical step material by Marius Petipa, Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. Peter Wright was not interested in reconstructing the original from 1841, but adapted the staging and choreography to the technique of today's dancers. The result is a Giselle that, on the one hand, is completely committed to the spirit of Romanticism and, on the other, puts the acting skills and virtuosity of classical ballet in the foreground.
The result is a Giselle that, on the one hand, is completely committed to the spirit of Romanticism and, on the other, puts the acting skills and virtuosity of classical ballet in the foreground. Giselle is a young girl who first falls in love, then falls into madness and finally turns into a "Wili". The plot of the ballet goes back to a text by Heinrich Heine, who recounts the legend of these nocturnal elemental spirits as follows: "The Wilis are brides who have died before the wedding.
The poor young creatures cannot lie quietly in their graves, in their dead hearts, in their dead feet there still remained that desire to dance which they could not satisfy in life, and at midnight they rise, gather, and woe to the young man who meets them! He must dance with them, they embrace him with unbridled frenzy, and he dances with them, without rest or repose, until he falls down dead.
Ballet in two acts
Libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules-Henri Vernoy, based on the work De l'Allemagne by Heinrich Heine
World premiere: 28/06/1841 at the Opéra national de Paris
Premiere in Barcelona: 25/05/1847 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Last performance at the Liceu: 15/11/2010
Total performances at the Liceu: 159
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- First act 50min
- Pause 30 min
- Second Act 45min
Artistic profile
- Choreography after Coralli / Perrot / Petipa
- Peter Wright
- Based on
- Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier
- Music
- Adolphe Adam, Friedrich Burgmüller and Riccardo Drigo
- Set and costume design
- Peter Farmer
- Production
- Bayerische Staatsoper
- Ballet Director
- Laurent Hilaire
- Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu
- Conductor Robertas Šervenikas
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