Fall into the magic of Giselle!
The Houston Ballet present their beguiling Giselle at the Detroit Opera House for the first time. This beautiful and bitter-sweet ballet has been enchanting audiences for over 150 years since its Parisian premier. Think delicate steps, forbidding forests and yearning hearts and prepare to journey into a timeless supernatural tale!
What the story of Giselle?
With music from Adolphe Adam and a liberetto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Theophile Gautier, Giselle Ou Les Wilis is the sad tale of poor Giselle, a young, fragile village girl who falls for seemingly the perfect man. She is besotted by his mysterious character and upon his unmasking as a betrothed Duke, she dies tragically.
But Giselle's story does not end there. From her grave, she is summed by the Queen of the Wilis, the ethereal Myrtha and indoctrinated into the fantasy coven of women who lead men to their deaths via the medium of dance. But will Giselle be able to kill the Duke? Or will her love for him manage to transcend the power of evil?