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Act I Act II Director TIMUR FAYZIEV Hilarion is discovered just before midnight Giselle, a weak-hearted young girl who is keeping vigil by Giselle’s tomb. As midnight Music adored by her native villagers, lives with her approaches, the Wilis appear with their leader, ADOLPH ADAM watchful mother, Berthe (She had a vision that Queen Myrta. her daughter will one day become a Wili, a Libretto Albrecht, that same night, visits Giselle’s grave. maiden who dies before her wedding night. GAUTIER & At this point, Myrta discovers Hilarion in the The Wilis emerge between midnight and dawn G. SAINT-GEORGE to vengefully trap any man who enters their forest and orders the Wilis to dance around him domain by forcing him to dance to his death) until he dies from exhaustion. She then disco- Choreography vers Albrecht and condemns him to dance with JEAN CORALLI, her spectral sisters until he dies, but Giselle Hilarion, the village gamekeeper, is desperately JULES PERROT, intervenes to save him. At dawn, when the in love with Giselle. Prince Albrecht, a noble- MARIUS PETIPA & Wilis lose their power and must retreat to their man who is already engaged to a noblewoman ALEXANDR GORSKY dwelling place, Albrecht is saved by Giselle named Bathilde, is bored and lonely with his love. Now the spirit of Giselle must return with Production everyday existence. Captivated by Giselle, he the Wilis. SISTEMA flirts with her and as a result, she falls comple- PRODUCCIONES tely in love with him. Hilarion, filled with sus- picion and jealousy, becomes enraged when Giselle falls madly in love with Albrecht.

During the village celebration of the end of the harvest, Hilarion exposes Albrecht’s duplici- Duration: ty and reveals Loys’s true identity to Giselle; overwhelmingly distraught and horrified, Gise- 1st part: 55 minutes. lle dies of a broken heart. Interval: 20 minutes. 2ond part: 50 minutes.

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