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Adolphe Adam: Giselle (1841 ballet)
- Ballet in two acts
- Music by Adolphe Adam
- Addition to the music of the premiere: Friedrich Burgmüller's 'Peasant Pas de Deux'
- Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier
- Based on Heinrich Heine's De l'Allemagne and Victor Hugo's "Fantômes" from Les Orientales
- Original choreography by Jean Petrone Coralli and Jules Perrot
- Titled originally 'Giselle, ou les Wilis'
- Time and place: Rhineland during the Middle Ages
- Major choreographic versions
- 1841: Paris World Premiere (Carlotta Grisi, Lucien Petipa and Adèle Dumilâtre)
- 1910: Paris (Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev)
- 1932: Paris (Serge Lifar)
- 1971: London (Mary Skeaping)
- 1982: Stockholm (Mats Ek)
- 1989: Stuttgart (Marcia Haydée)
- 1991: Paris (Patrice Bart)
- Versions
- 1841: on June 28th in Paris, France, World Premiere with Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi as Giselle, Lucien Petipa as Albrecht, Adele Dumilâtre as Myrtha, choreographers Jean Petrone Coralli and Jules Perrot, and by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris. Salle Le Peletier was the former and later demolished building of Paris Opera. The composer Friedrich Burgmüller's 'Peasant Pas de Deux' was added to the ballet for its premiere. This music was originally titled 'Souvenirs de Ratisbonne'. The ballet was an unqualified triumph. Giselle became hugely popular and was staged at once across Europe and the United States.
- 1841: Grand Theatre, Bordeaux
- 1842: UK premiere on March 12th at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, with Carlotta Grisi as Giselle and Jules Perrot as Albrecht
- 1842: Marseille, Turin, Brussels and Vienna
- 1843: Lyon, Milan, Venice, Berlin and Moscow
- 1844: Madrid, The Hague, Florence, Genoa
- 1845 Stockholm, Rome, Dublin, Lisbon
- 1846: USA premiere on January 1st at Howard Athenaeum in Boston, and the second performance at New York Park Theater, New York. Mary- Ann Lee was Giselle, and George Washington Smith was Count Albrecht. The ballet was brought by the ballerina Mary-Ann Lee, who had studied with Coralli in Paris.
- 1846 Philadelphia, Charleston, Berlin
- 1848 Royal Theater in Copenhagen, the Grand Theater of Warsaw.
- 1849 Königsberg
- 1863: Paris, resumed original version by Jean Coralli (scenery by Edouard Desplechin , Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry
- 1903: Paris, choreography by Joseph Hansen with Carlotta Zambelli, Louise Mante and Emma Sandrini
- 1910: Paris, Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, with Vaslav Nijinsky as Albrecht.
- 1910 London, edited by Mikhail Mordkin for Anna Pavlova.
- 1932: Paris, choreography by Serge Lifar, revival of the previous 1924 Paris version, Marina Semyonova as Giselle, Serge Lifar as Albrecht. They performed together in 1935-1936. New sets and costumes: Léon Leyritz (1939), Jean Carzu (1954).
- 1971: London, choreography by Mary Skeaping
- 1972: Havana, choreography by Alicia Alonso, set and costumes by Thierry Bosquet
- 1982: Stockholm, choreography by Mats Ek
- 1984: New York, Dance Theater of Harlem, choreography by Frederick Franklin after Jean Petrone Coralli and Jules Perrot
- 1989: Stuttgart, choreography by Marcia Haydée
- 2008_ Adelaide, Australian Dance Theater, choreography of "G" by Garry Stewart and the ADT dancers
- 2009: Lyon Opera, choreography by Mats Ek music Adolphe Adam, director of the Lyon Opera Ballet Yorgos Loukos
- 2009: Paris Opera, choreography by Mats Ek music Adolphe Adam
- 2011: Muscat, (horeography by Jean Petrone Coralli and Jules Perrot, taken over by Yvette Chauviré
- 2016 Giselle, choreography by Akram Khan (Giselle — Alina Cojocaru, Tamara Rojo, Albrecht — Isaac Hernandez). The action has been moved to a garment factory. Music by Vincenzo Lamagna based on the original ballet by Adolphe Adam.
- Roles and dancers
- Giselle, peasant girl
- Carlotta Grisi (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Fanny Elssler
- Nathalie Fitzjames
- Fanny Cerrito
- Marie Guy-Stéphan
- Adele Dumilâtre
- Lucile Grahn
- Carolina Rosati
- Sofia Fuoco
- Katti Lanner
- Emma Bessone
- Margot Fonteyn
- Alicia Alonso
- Maria Tallchief
- Carla Fracci
- Eva Maria Gregori
- Nina Ananiashvili (b 1963)
- Sylvie Guillem (b 1965)
- Albrecht, Duke of Silesia
- Lucien Petipa (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Jules Perrot
- Auguste Mabille
- Louis Mérante
- Enrico Cecchetti
- Vaslav Nijinsky
- Serge Lifar
- Erik Bruhn
- Maris Rudolf Liepa
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis
- Adele Dumilâtre (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Countess Maria Sophie Taglioni
- Katti Lanner
- Hilarion, gamekeeper
- F. Simon (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Berthe, Giselle's mother, widow
- Mme Roland (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Prince of Courland
- G. Quarieu (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Bathilde, princess, Albrecht's fiacée and daughter of the Prince of Courland
- Mlle C. A. Forster (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Wilfried, Albrecht's squire
- Jean Petrone Coralli (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- A hunter
- L, Petit (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Mirta, 1st Wili
- Adele Dumilâtre (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Zulma, 2nd Wili
- Sophie Dumilâtre (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Monna, 3rd Wili
- Mlle Carre (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Giselle, peasant girl
- Pas detâches
- Peasant pas de deux
- Auguste Mabille (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Nathalie Fitzjames (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Grand pas de deux
- Lucien Petipa (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Carlotta Grisi (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Peasant pas de deux
- Scenographers
- Pierre Luc Charles Cicéri (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Costume designors
- Paul Philippe Georges Lormier (World Premiere in Paris 1841)
- Alfred Albert (Paris Opera revival in 1863-1868)
- Conductors
- Ludwig Minkus
- Anatole Fistoulari
- Herbert von Karajan
- Richard Alan Bonynge
- Andrew Mogrelia (b 1958)
- Choreographers
- Jean Petrone Coralli (World Premiere in Paris in 1841)
- Jules Perrot (World Premiere in Paris in 1841)
- Marius Petipa
- George Herman Karl Grönfeldt
- Serge Lifar
- Alicia Alonso
- Erik Bruhn
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Mats Ek (b 1945)
- Sylvie Guillem (b 1965)
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