Giselle

Romantic ballet par excellence, born from the imagination of the great writer Théophile Gautier, fascinated by the legend of the Willi, characters from German folk tradition. The Willi are spirits of young women in ornate wedding dresses, who died for love before marriage, who wander the woods at nightfall seeking revenge on the men by whom they have been betrayed, forcing them to dance themselves to death. The famous ballet is re-proposed in a unique and mystical way by the Romanian Opera House Ballet with exceptional costumes and sets based on 19th-century choreography by Jean Coralli. An original version, edited by a clear example of romantic ballet where the sacred and profane, flesh and spirit, love and death, earthly and heavenly dimensions, pantomime and “ballet blanc” merge.
More than a century and a half later,Giselle continues to fascinate audiences. It is marked by two paradigmatic roles in the academic repertoire: the peasant girl Giselle who dies of madness of love, and the lover Albrecht, the prince who plays with her and betrays her, only to redeem himself. A Ballet that will fill the entire audience with love and passion.

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TRAMA

The ballet consists of two acts: the first concerns the story of Giselle that culminates in her death; the second act concerns the legend of the Wilis and Giselle's love for Albrecht that culminates in her willingness to save his life, even though this was the main cause of his death.

Act I
In a village during the grape harvest, among the vines, a young peasant girl, Giselle, who loves to dance and would give her life for this passion, falls in love with a young man, Albrecht, whose origins she does not know because he introduces himself and woos her disguised as a commoner: he is a prince. Giselle and Albrecht dance joyfully in spite of her mother's constant warnings about her precarious health. Albrecht's suitor, jealous of Giselle's love, noticing her cloak and sword, realises how things really are. The court, engaged in a hunting party, enters the village to find refreshment. Among its members is Albrecht's betrothed, a noblewoman. The rival in love unmasks the prince in front of everyone: Giselle, madly in love, goes mad and dies of grief.

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Act II
In the middle of the night, Albrecht goes into the forest, where he finds Giselle's grave, marked with a cross. Desperate, he prays before the girl's grave and from there she emerges transformed into a villi. The Villi Queen gathers all her disciples to sé and together with them she begins to dance with Albrecht. Their intention was to make the young man die of exhaustion and they would have succeeded if Giselle had not intervened to support him until dawn, when the other villi are forced to vanish.

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