At the Teatro San Carlo in Naples the famous ballet Giselle is staged: a romantic and fantastic fairy tale inspired by the Slavic legend of the Villi.
Al San Carlo Theater of Naples the magic of classical ballet returns with the representation of Giselle, or le Villi, on stage from the 24 28 March 2018.
The ballet will be presented in the choreographic reading of Anna Razzi and will see the debut on the scenes of the San Carlo di Marianela Nuñez, principal dancer of the Royal Ballet. He will lead the Orchestra of the San Carlo Theater David Garforth.
The public will be able to dream by attending this famous fantastic ballet in two acts on a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges e Théophile Gautier and taken from the novel by Heinrich Heine De L'Allemagne, in which it is told the Slavic legend of the Villi and of the tormented love between Giselle and Albrecht.
Giselle it is the first magnificent example of romantic ballet, conceived by the French nineteenth-century novelist Théophile Gautier and then musiced by Adolphe-Charles Adam, one of the most famous composers of music for ballet. The choreography was entrusted to Jean Coralli, while the steps of the first dancers were instead taken care of by Jules Perrot.
La first representation of the ballet took place on the stage of the Opéra National de Paris in the 1841, with the Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi as Giselle and with Lucien Petipa in the role of Albrecht.
Giselle, or le Villi: a romantic and suggestive Slavic legend
The plot of Giselle is inspired by legend of the Villi, (from the Slavic root Villa what does it mean to), i spirits of young unhappy death girls because betrayed or abandoned before marriage. According to Slavic mythology, these vindictive entities, not finding eternal rest in death, are forced to wander each night in search of their traitors and force them to dance to exhaustion, helping themselves with magical twigs of mistletoe.
Once dead, the Villi throw their bodies into a lake, and finally the ghost of the maiden died out of love and can be appeased and vanish.
The ballet Giselle narrates, therefore, of the impossible love story between the young farmer Giselle and the prince Albrecht, who manages to win over the vengeful spirit of the mythical Villi.
Information on the show Giselle
When: from 24 to 28 March 2018, except Monday 26 March
Timetables:
- Saturday 24 March 2018, 17.00 hours / 21.00 hours
- Sunday 25 March 2018, 17.00 hours
- Tuesday 27 March 2017, 20.00 hours
- Wednesday 28 March 2018, 18.00 hours
Price tickets: from 30 to 110 euro
Where: San Carlo Theater of Naples, via San Carlo 98 / F, Naples
More information: Official website
