The ballet’s title role also offers one of the great challenges of the ballet repertory, as Giselle transforms from an innocent peasant girl, duped into love, to a forgiving spirit who saves her lover from death. For the ballerina this is a role of two contrasting halves: in Act I she must appear naïve and artless, her dancing alive with an earthy enthusiasm; in Act II she transforms into light and air, her dancing so ethereal as to seem weightless. In Peter Wright’s production, the dual aspect of the ballet is perfectly achieved: the first act dramatized in rich, naturalistic detail and the second with a spectral, moonlit beauty.

Choreography Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot

Music Adolphe Adam revised by Joseph Horovitz

Scenario Théophile Gautier after Heinrich Heine

Production and additional choreography Peter Wright

Designer John Macfarlane

Original lighting Jennifer Tipton recreated by David Finn

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Ballet in two acts

Running time: c.2 hours 15 minutes (including 1 interval) 

The London-based Royal Opera House’s live performances are distributed in Hungary by Pannonia Entertainment Ltd.

TICKET PURCHASE

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SERIES TICKET

If you purchase tickets for at least 7 different Royal Opera House live broadcast shows, you will receive a 20% discount of the total ticket price.

You will be able to purchase tickets at this special price only in Vigadó’s Box Office.

The phone number of our Box Office is +36 (1) 328-3340.

You can contact the ticket sales management at kozonsegszervezes@vigado.hu.

Please, be informed that visitors arriving late for Vigadó’s Royal Opera House performances can take their seats only in the breaks.