Giselle / by Théophile Gautier ; Unitel presents ; a film by Hugo Niebeling ; directed by Hugo Niebeling and David Blair ; a production of Unitel GmbH & Co. KG and TVE.
Publisher:
Deutsche Grammophon,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (8 pages ; 18 cm)
Giselle (Choreographic work : Blair after Coralli and Perrot) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97822084
Notes:
"Filmed at Madrid, Bronston Studios, 10 & 11/1968." Carla Fracci, Erik Bruhn, Toni Lander, Bruce Marks, Eleanor D'Antuono, Ted Kivitt and other members of the American Ballet Theatre ; Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, John Lanchbery, conductor. Program notes (8 pages) inserted in container.
Summary:
The ballet takes its inspiration from the Slavic legend of the "Wilis" as described in the poems of Heinrich Heine. 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.
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