Giselle
- By:
- Adolphe Adam, revised by Joseph Horowitz
- Management:
- Birmingham Royal Ballet
- Cast:
- Nao Sakuma (June 25, 27), Matthew Lawrence (June 25, 27), Dominic Antonucci (June 25), Gaylene Cummerfield (June 25), Elisha Willis (June 26), Jamie Bond (June 26), Robert Gravenor (June 26), Lei Zhao (June 26), Ambra Vallo (June 26, 28), Joseph Caley (June 26, 28), Christopher Larsen (June 26, 28), Carol-Anne Millar (June 26, 28), James Grundy (June 27), Victoria Marr (June 27)
- Design:
- Hayden Griffin
- Lighting:
- Mark Jonathan
- Choreography:
- Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Nao Sakuma as Giselle and Matthew Lawrence as Count Albrecht lead an able company in a dazzling evening which combines technical certainty with an air of wistful melancholy - the essence of this most romantic of 19th century ballets. Theophile Gautier's story is heightened at every turn by Adolphe Adam's lovely music, played with due reverence and delicacy in the solo passages by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conducted sensitively by Paul Murphy...
Run sheet
- Hippodrome Birmingham
- June 25-28
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