Ballett: Giselle - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballett: Giselle
Choreography Elena Tschernischova after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa
musical direction
Wolfgang Heinz
composer
Adolphe Adam
choreography and staging
Elena Tschernischova after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa
libretto
after Theophile Gautier
stage
Ingulf Bruun
costumes
Clarisse Praun-Maylunas
rehearsal
Luke Gaudernak
Jean Christophe Lesage
Alice Necsea
The poet Heinrich Heine passed on the legend of the mysterious Wilis, those young women who had to die before their wedding because their love was betrayed. In their dead hearts, an untamed desire to dance beats on. As ghosts they leave their graves at night - and if a living person approaches them during this time, they dance him to death.
For the ballet of the Paris Opera, Adolphe Adam composed ballet music based on this material in 1841, which is one of the main works of the Romantic era - to be experienced with the Vienna State Ballet in a version created by Elena Tschernischova for Vienna in 1993, which is characterized by an original color concept: Vor Against a backdrop of gray tones, the actors stand out in signal colors. With more than 80 performances, the work, whose premiere with Brigitte Stadler and Vladimir Malakhov and an outstanding ensemble performance is one of the highlights of recent Viennese ballet history, is still a "calling card" for the company today.
1st act
Giselle is different from the peasant girls in her village. She lives without a father with her mother Berthe, is more sensitive than her friends and possessed by a dangerous desire to dance. The adventurous Duke Albrecht mingles with the people disguised as a farmer. Fascinated by Giselle's innocent beauty, he courts her. Giselle falls in love with the stranger. You confess your feelings.
Hilarion, a game warden who has had his eye on Giselle for a long time, watches with suspicion and jealousy.
Giselle encourages the winemakers to dance. She ignores the warnings of her mother, who tells her about the fate of the Wilis - those brides who were betrayed before their marriage and are henceforth doomed to dance every night as undead under the spell of their queen Myrtha.
A hunting party stops in the village, led by the Duke of Courland and his daughter Bathilde, Albrecht's fiancé. The house of Giselle is well known to the duke, as it was the shelter of a love affair with Berthe. He is the only one with whom he still shares the secret of the true origin of their daughter Giselle. He allows Bathilde, enchanted by her charm, to give Giselle a valuable necklace.
The winegrowers celebrate Thanksgiving and elect Giselle as wine queen. Meanwhile, Hilarion discovers Albrecht's sword, adorned with the ducal coat of arms. In front of the assembled hunting party, he unmasks his deceitful disguise. But Albrecht, unable to explain himself to Bathilde, uses the excuse that his approach to Giselle was just a moody joke.
Giselle, stunned by the betrayal of her feelings, loses her mind and dies.
2nd act
Hilarion visits Giselle's grave in the forest. At midnight, will-o'-the-wisps begin a dance. Hilarion flees in horror. The Wili Queen Myrtha awakens her entourage. Following the magical call, Giselle also climbs out of her grave. She is accepted into the Wilis community.
Duke Albrecht visits Giselle's grave in deep mourning. Giselle keeps appearing to him as a ghost bride, but he is unable to grasp her.
Hilarion could not escape the power circle of the Wilis. They pursue him and take their revenge: like any man who strays into their territory after midnight, they dance him to death.
Giselle begs for mercy for Albrecht. Myrtha orders her to lure Albrecht away from her grave. Her ruse to withdraw Albrecht from the protection of the Holy Cross seems to be working: Albrecht cannot resist Giselle's dance. But Giselle's love, which even death could not harm, gives him such strength that he manages to keep the dance going until dawn.
With the sunrise the power of the Wilis dwindles. Giselle also returns to her grave. Albrecht stays alone.
Subject to change.
musical direction
Wolfgang Heinz
composer
Adolphe Adam
choreography and staging
Elena Tschernischova after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa
libretto
after Theophile Gautier
stage
Ingulf Bruun
costumes
Clarisse Praun-Maylunas
rehearsal
Luke Gaudernak
Jean Christophe Lesage
Alice Necsea
The poet Heinrich Heine passed on the legend of the mysterious Wilis, those young women who had to die before their wedding because their love was betrayed. In their dead hearts, an untamed desire to dance beats on. As ghosts they leave their graves at night - and if a living person approaches them during this time, they dance him to death.
For the ballet of the Paris Opera, Adolphe Adam composed ballet music based on this material in 1841, which is one of the main works of the Romantic era - to be experienced with the Vienna State Ballet in a version created by Elena Tschernischova for Vienna in 1993, which is characterized by an original color concept: Vor Against a backdrop of gray tones, the actors stand out in signal colors. With more than 80 performances, the work, whose premiere with Brigitte Stadler and Vladimir Malakhov and an outstanding ensemble performance is one of the highlights of recent Viennese ballet history, is still a "calling card" for the company today.
1st act
Giselle is different from the peasant girls in her village. She lives without a father with her mother Berthe, is more sensitive than her friends and possessed by a dangerous desire to dance. The adventurous Duke Albrecht mingles with the people disguised as a farmer. Fascinated by Giselle's innocent beauty, he courts her. Giselle falls in love with the stranger. You confess your feelings.
Hilarion, a game warden who has had his eye on Giselle for a long time, watches with suspicion and jealousy.
Giselle encourages the winemakers to dance. She ignores the warnings of her mother, who tells her about the fate of the Wilis - those brides who were betrayed before their marriage and are henceforth doomed to dance every night as undead under the spell of their queen Myrtha.
A hunting party stops in the village, led by the Duke of Courland and his daughter Bathilde, Albrecht's fiancé. The house of Giselle is well known to the duke, as it was the shelter of a love affair with Berthe. He is the only one with whom he still shares the secret of the true origin of their daughter Giselle. He allows Bathilde, enchanted by her charm, to give Giselle a valuable necklace.
The winegrowers celebrate Thanksgiving and elect Giselle as wine queen. Meanwhile, Hilarion discovers Albrecht's sword, adorned with the ducal coat of arms. In front of the assembled hunting party, he unmasks his deceitful disguise. But Albrecht, unable to explain himself to Bathilde, uses the excuse that his approach to Giselle was just a moody joke.
Giselle, stunned by the betrayal of her feelings, loses her mind and dies.
2nd act
Hilarion visits Giselle's grave in the forest. At midnight, will-o'-the-wisps begin a dance. Hilarion flees in horror. The Wili Queen Myrtha awakens her entourage. Following the magical call, Giselle also climbs out of her grave. She is accepted into the Wilis community.
Duke Albrecht visits Giselle's grave in deep mourning. Giselle keeps appearing to him as a ghost bride, but he is unable to grasp her.
Hilarion could not escape the power circle of the Wilis. They pursue him and take their revenge: like any man who strays into their territory after midnight, they dance him to death.
Giselle begs for mercy for Albrecht. Myrtha orders her to lure Albrecht away from her grave. Her ruse to withdraw Albrecht from the protection of the Holy Cross seems to be working: Albrecht cannot resist Giselle's dance. But Giselle's love, which even death could not harm, gives him such strength that he manages to keep the dance going until dawn.
With the sunrise the power of the Wilis dwindles. Giselle also returns to her grave. Albrecht stays alone.
Subject to change.
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