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Giselle
- Summary
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Giselle, a simple peasant girl driven to madness and death through an unhappy love, becomes a ghost ordered to destroy the man who betrayed her, yet seeks to sustain him because of her undying love.
Details
- Creator
- music by Alolphe Adam ; presented by the Bolshoi Theatre (USSR)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- Unknown
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Los Angeles, Calif. : Spectator Video : distributed by Connoisseum Video Collection, [1990]
- ©1990
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 videocassette (VHS) (108 min.) : sound, color, stereophonic ; 1/2 in
- OCLC
- ocm24048054
- Credits
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- Natalya Bessmertnova, Yuri Vasyuchenko, Yuri Vetrov, Maria Bilova, Elvira Drozdova, Oksana Tsvetnikskaya, Marina Nudge, Andrei Buravtsev, The Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra ; conducted by Algis Zhuraitis
- Music by Adolphe Adam ; scenario by Theophile Gautier and Vernoy DeSaint-Georges ; original choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa ; new choreography by Yuri Grigorovich ; scenery and costumes by Simon Virsaladze
- Title from cassette label.
- Performed and recorded live at the Leningrad Theatre in Moscow.