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Moscow Ballet - La Classique: Giselle

Wednesday 11th March 2009, 7.30pm

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Main Auditorium

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The Moscow Ballet – La Classique demonstrate their quality of dance and performance in this atmospheric production of the classic romantic ballet, Giselle. With its haunting musical score Giselle is evocative, moving and powerful as it shifts scenes between the fantastic ethereal and rustic existential worlds.

The beautiful village maiden Giselle is courted by the handsome stranger Loys, who is actually Prince Albrecht in disguise. When the true identity of Loys is revealed by Giselle’s rejected suitor, the jealous Hilarion, in the presence of a hunting party which includes Albrecht’s fiance Princess Bathilde, a shocked and distressed Giselle dies of a broken heart.

In Act II, at Giselle’s grave-side within a moonlit glade Albrecht sees the ghostly form of Giselle in the midst of her new-found sisters The Wilis, sylph-like spirits of young maidens who have died before their marriage, as they dance gracefully through the forest. Their Queen orders Giselle to dance Albrecht to death but as dawn breaks he is saved as Giselle fades away, yielding to the magic of the Wilis and resigned to parting forever.