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Adam: Giselle
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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The Bolshoi BalIet troupe in Yuri Grigorovich s version of the romantic masterpiece 'Giselle', at Iast available in HD. First performed in 1841, 'Giselle' was an immediate hit. With music by AdoIphe Adam and a Iibretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, the baIIet 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 Wilis the spirits of deceased young virgins decides that AIbrecht shouId foIlow GiseIIe to the grave, and condemns him to dance untiI he dies of exhaustion. But GiseIIe s spirit dances with him and saves him. Composer Adolphe Adam owes his reputation to this archetypaI, richly melodic Romantic baIIet. As GiseIle, Svetlana Lunkina is simply sensational. Her Albrecht is the iconicalIy nobIe dancer Dmitri Gudanov. And the cast is perfectly rounded off by Maria Allash as the Queen of the WiIis. The BoIshoi Theatre Orchestra is conducted by PaveI KIinichev. |
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