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Giselle, now resurrected as a Wili, takes extreme measures to save Albrecht, floating
across the stage as if practising for a part in Peter Pan
[watch and listen -- chapter 30, 78:35-79:42].
Once they have disposed of Hilarion, the Wilis catch sight of Albrecht too. Giselle advises
that only clinging to a crucifix can save him. Her dancing rightly bewitches him so that he
abandons the crucifix and is compelled to an exciting display of skill such as totally
exhausts him and should be the signal for a second Wili triumph
[watch and listen -- chapter 35, 95:22-96:15].
But the village clock strikes four, the Wilis are unmagicked by the coming dawn and
Albrecht survives. He cannot live happily ever after with Giselle, as she is dead; one hopes
he returns to Bathilde, that she forbids dancing of any sort, and that he avoids that particular
part of the wood during the hours of Wili danger.
Yuri Vasyuchenko as Count Albrecht at the end of Adam's 'Giselle'. DVD screenshot © 2003 EuroArts Music International GmbH
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Copyright © 23 August 2006
Robert Anderson, London UK
Adolphe Adam: Giselle
DV-BLGIS DVD9 PAL 4:3 All regions LPCM Stereo; AC3 Digital 5.1; DTS 5.1 REISSUE 109' 1990 The Bolshoi Theatre, NHK Enterprises Inc, Videofilm USSR, 2003 EuroArts Music International, 2003 TDK Recording Media Europe SA - Artwork and Editorial
Natalia Bessmertnova, Giselle; Yuri Vasyuchenko, Count Albrecht; Yuri Vetrov, Hilarion; Maria Bylova, Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis; Elena Bobrova, Berthe, Giselle's mother; Violetta Voronina, Bathilde, Albrecht's fiancée; Andrei Sitnikov, The Duke, Bathilde's father; Sergei Gromov, Wilfried, the Count's squire; Members of the Ballet of the Bolshoi Theatre; Yuri Torchinski, violin solo; Aleksandr Sheidin, viola; Sergei Burdukov, oboe; Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre; Algis Zhuraitis, conductor; Michio Takemori, producer (NHK); Shizuo Yokosuka, co-producer (NHK); Shoukichi Amano, senior director (NHK); Shuji Fuji, director (NHK); Simon Willock, executive producer (RPTA/Primetime)
Adolphe Adam: Giselle - Ballet in 2 acts (libretto by Théophile Gautier and Vernoy de Saint-Georges; original choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa). Recorded at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 1990.
Issued as a TDK box set DV-BOXBAL3 (2006) with Béjart's Nutcracker and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet |
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