The greatest of all Romantic ballets, Peter Wright’s production of Marius Petipa’s classic is a tale of betrayal, the supernatural and love that transcends death.
Cast sheets
Cast sheets are available as PDFs
Credits
- Choreography
- Marius Petipa
after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot - Music
- Adolphe Adam
revised by Joseph Horovitz - Scenario
- Théophile Gautier
after Heinrich Heine - Production
- Peter Wright
- Additional choreography
- Peter Wright
- Designer
- John Macfarlane
- Original lighting
- Jennifer Tipton
- Lighting re-created by
- David Finn
- Performed by
- The Royal Ballet
Performers
- Conductor
- Barry Wordsworth
- Giselle
- Marianela Nuñez
- Albrecht
- Vadim Muntagirov
- Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis
- Itziar Mendizabal
- Hilarion
- Bennet Gartside
- Wilfred
- Johannes Stepanek
- Berthe
- Elizabeth McGorian
- Duke of Courland
- Gary Avis
- Bathilde
- Christina Arestis
- Leader of the Hunt
- Jonathan Howells
- Pas de sixes
- Moyna
- Olivia Cowley
- Zulme
- Beatriz Stix-Brunell
- Concert Master
- Peter Manning
- Orchestra
- Orchestra of the Royal Opera House