Governors State University OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship Center for Performing Arts Memorabilia Center for Performing Arts 1-20-2001 Giselle Center for Performing Arts Follow this and additional works at: http://opus.govst.edu/cpa_memorabilia Recommended Citation Center for Performing Arts, "Giselle" (2001, 2008). Center for Performing Arts Memorabilia. Book 168. http://opus.govst.edu/ cpa_memorabilia/168 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Performing Arts at OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Center for Performing Arts Memorabilia by an authorized administrator of OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. fOR PffiFORMINC HRT5 Governors State University Presents Moscow Festival Ballet GISELLE SATURDAY, JANUARY 20,2001 8:00 PM 2000/2001 Season sponsored in part by a grant from the: I MOSCOW FESTIVAL BALLET GISELLE Sergei Radchenko, Artistic Director Act I: A Rhineland Village PRINCIPAL DANCERS Giselle, a peasant girl, has fallen in love with Count Albrecht, who has led her to believe that he is a villager named Loys. Her superstitious Natalia Arkiphova mother, Berthe, hoping that Giselle will marry the forester Hilarion, Mikhail Bessmertnov Marina Rzhannikova warns her against Loys, to whom she has taken an instinctive dislike. Dmitry Dmitriev Natalia Kungurtseva Yuri Vetrov Tatiana Andreyeva In order to discourage Giselle's love for 'Loys', Berthe further recounts Vyacheslav Aksenov the legend of the Wilis - ghosts of young girls who have been jilted Irina Kovaleva Valery Shumilov and die before their wedding day: to avenge themselves, they dance to Renata Petrova Alexander Rupyshev death any man who crosses their paths between midnight and dawn.