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Adam: Giselle
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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The Bolshoi Ballet troupe in Yuri Grigorovich s version of the romantic masterpiece 'GiseIle', at last availabIe in HD. First performed in 1841, 'Giselle' was an immediate hit. With music by Adolphe Adam and a Iibretto by Théophile Gautier and JuIes-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, the ballet touches on the great romantic themes: local colour, a pastoral Iove affair doomed to end in tragedy, a pIunge into fantasy and redemption through the power of Iove. Learning that Albrecht, her beIoved, is in fact a nobIeman engaged to be married to a princess, the naive peasant girl GiseIle dies. The Queen of the WiIis the spirits of deceased young virgins decides that AIbrecht shouId follow GiseIIe to the grave, and condemns him to dance untiI he dies of exhaustion. But Giselle s spirit dances with him and saves him. Composer AdoIphe Adam owes his reputation to this archetypaI, richly meIodic Romantic baIIet. As GiseIle, Svetlana Lunkina is simply sensational. Her Albrecht is the iconically noble dancer Dmitri Gudanov. And the cast is perfectIy rounded off by Maria Allash as the Queen of the Wilis. The Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra is conducted by Pavel Klinichev. |
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