Giselle

From La Scala comes a new staging of an archetypical Romantic ballet on DVD; The 2005 Production of GISELLE featuring the original version of the choreography Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. First performed at the Academie Royale de Musique in Paris in 1841 as a two-act "ballet-pantomime", Giselle is hailed by ballet historians as the apotheosis of the Romantic ballet. The ballet was conceived by the influential French poet, author, critic and possibly the greatest champion of the Romantic ballet, Theophile Gautier, who, together with Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges wrote the scenario that was the basis of Adolphe Adam's score.