Adolphe Adam

Acclaimed dancer-choreographer Akram Khan reimagines the classic ballet for the 21st century. Giselle has become a former garment worker, while Albrecht is a member of the wealthy factory-owning class. In an abandoned 'ghost factory' haunted by the memory of female migrant workers, many of them victims of industrial accidents, Giselle's desire to break the cycle of violence will lead to her reconciliation with Albrecht and his release from the retributive...

With its narrative of buccaneering bravado, exotic opulence, romance, and traitorous intrigue, this is one of the most impressive narrative ballets of the nineteenth century, and it remains one of Adolphe Adam's best-known works. Director of the Wiener Staatsballett, Manuel Legris, has choreographed a new version that draws on the rich performance traditions of Russia and France, and carefully combines action, music, choreography, scenery and costumes...

Adolphe Adam's comic opera revolves around the trials, tribulations, and misunderstandings of Coraline, her older, philandering husband Don Belflor, and Tracolin, Coraline's flute-playing lover.

A performance of the classic ballet, Giselle, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet.