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Giselle
As the archetypal Romantic ballet, Giselle revolves aroun the traditional motif of the love that triumphs over death
First performed at the Paris Opéra on 28 June 1841 as a two-act “ballet-pantomime” and hailed by ballet historians as the oldest surviving exampl of a ballet that owes its origins to the work of a global collective.
As the archetypal Romantic ballet, Giselle revolves aroun the traditional motif of the love that triumphs over death, a motif that can be traced back to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and that was to culminate in the later 19th century in the music dramas of Wagner.
The plot, in outline, is as follows. Giselle is an innocent and naïve young girl from the country.
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