Adolphe Adam
GISELLE
Many consider Giselle the queen of the romantic ballet and it is an utterly unusual appearance within the phenomenon of classical ballet. Such an attribution is earned due to the many aspects of its multiple complex structure, from the idea to its charismatic authors, dramaturgy of two entirely different acts and the music of Adolphe Adam. The contrast of the realism of one life story in the first act with the fantastic content of the white act, served as a model for all the subsequent great ballet works. It is a story about a deceived peasant girl, unhappily in love whose heart breaks from love and she then joins the world of fairies in which former fiancées who have died before their marriage and before they satisfied their yearning for dance live. For more than 120 years Giselle has been an integral part of the ballet repertoire of the CNT in Zagreb and the new production was choreographed and directed by José Carlos Martínez.
