Giselle

2006-2007 SEASON

2006-2007 OPERAS AND BALLETS

PLAYBILL

25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 January, 1 February 2007

Adolphe - Charles Adam

Giselle

Ballet in two acts by Jules Henri-Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Téophile Gautier and Jean Coralli

Conductor	Fabrizio Maria Carminati
Coreographer	Jean Coralli e Jules Perrot
Restaged by	Marcello Angelini
Scenes and costumes Designer	Raffaele Del Savio
Assistants coreographer	Susan Frei, Daniela Buson e Giuseppe Della Monica
Lighting Designer	Bruno Ciulli

Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Ballet

Production by Firenze Teatro Comunale

Cast

Giselle	Olesya Novikova	25, 28, 30 [4.30 pm] , 1 January
Giselle	Greta Hodgkinson	26, 27, 30 [9.30 pm] and 31 January
Loys/Albrecht	Leonid Sarafanov	25, 28, 30 [4.30 pm] , 1 January
Loys/Albrecht	Federico Bonelli	26, 27, 30 [9.30 pm] and 31 January

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Timetable

Thursday	25 January 2007	8.30 pm	PREMIERE
Friday	26 January 2007	6.30 pm	S/1
Saturday	27 January 2007	8.30 pm	single tickets only
Sunday	28 January 2007	5.30 pm	turnoD
Tuesday	30 January 2007	16.30	B
Tuesday	30 January 2007	9.30 pm	F
Wednesday	31 January 2007	6.30 pm	single tickets only
Thursday	1 February 2007	6.30 pm	C

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Synopsis

FIRST ACT

Giselle is a peasant girl whose two greatest loves are dancing and Loys, a peasant who is actually Albrecht, a nobleman in disguise. The huntsman Hilarion, who loves Giselle and is jealous of Loys, finds evidence of Loys’s true rank in his knigthly sword. When the Duke of Courland, his daughter Bathilde, and their retinue visit Giselle’s village, during the course of a hunt, Hilarion brings forth this evidence and unmasks Albrecht. Bathilde recognizes him as her fiancé, and Giselle, heartbroken at this revelation, goes mad and dies.

SECOND ACT

Giselle is inducted into the band of Wilis, female spirits who emerge from their graves at midnight to dance and to force any man they met to dance with them until he dies. Hilarion enters their forest domain and falls prey to them. When Albrecht arrives to mourn at Giselle’s grave, Giselle seeks to protect him, but Myrtha, the queen of the Wilis, demands his death. The lovers dance together, and just as Albrecht is about to succumb to exhaustion, dawn breaks and the Wilis lose their power over him. Giselle, whose love for him has endured beyond death, bids him a final farewell.

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Photographs

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