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Ballet of Croatian National Theatre of Zagreb

Adolphe Adam i José Carlos Martínez: Giselle

Libreto Théophile Gautier, Vernoy de Saint-Georges prema Heinrichu Heineu

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Choreographer and director: José Carlos Martínez based on the ballet by Jean Coralli i Jules Perrot

Costume designer and set designer: Iñaki Cobos Guerrero

Light designer: Deni Šesnić

Assistant choreographer and director: Ana Elena Martin

Costume designer assistant: Mia Rejc Prajninger

Assistant set designer: Benjamin Amado Miranda

Ballet masters: Mihaela Devald Roksandić, Pavla Pećušak, Andrej Barbanov, Tomislav Petranović, George Stanciu

Headpiece and ornament maker: Ana Trišler

Courtier's headdress maker: Tihana Cizelj

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Giselle, a country girl: Iva Vitić Gameiro 20.7. / Natalia Kosovac 21.7.

Count Albrecht: Guilherme Gameiro Alves 20.7. / Pavel Savin 21.7.

Wilfried, Albrecht's friend: Ovidiu Muscalu

Hilarion, forester: Simon Yoshida

Duke of Courland: Samuele Berbenni

Bathilda, Duke's daughter: Atina Tanović

Bertha, Giselle's mother: Petra Vargović Stanciu

Pas de deux of the villagers: Anamarija Marković i Mario Diligente 20.7. / Rizumu Tanaka i Yuho Yoshioka 21.7.

Giselle's friends: Helena Troha, Dora Blaić, Saya Ikegami, Diana Montes Mota, Dora Kovač, Hinako Shinzaki

Villagers: Ozana Mirković Blokar, Leda Šeparović, Lada Rora, Makeely Georgia Foster, Agnese Stancanelli, Anna Letizia Joly, Candela Nieto Cortes, Marta Sironić Taiguara Goulart, Arnau Velazquez Rodriguez, Justin Popa, Seth Bromley Clark, Mattia Baccon, Giovanni Messeri, Thomas Boddington, Andrea Podda

Court ladies: Elizabeth Anderson, Vera Kreitmeyer, Paulina Žanetić, Estrella Cebrino Torres

Gentlemen: Adam Harris, Mario Charlo Sobrino, Vid Vugrinec, Pierre Gaston

Myrtha, fairy queen: Mutsumi Matsuhisa

Fairy Moyna: Hinako Shinzaki

Fairy Zulma: Saya Ikegami

Fairies: Elizabeth Anderson, Dora Blaić, Estrella Cebrino Torres, Makeely Georgia Foster, Anna Letizia Joly, Dora Kovač, Ozana Mirković Blokar, Candela Nieto Cortes, Lada Rora, Marta Sironić, Agnese Stancanelli, Leda Šeparović, Rizumu Tanaka, Atina Tanović, Helena Troha, Paulina Žanetić, Diana Montes Mota, Vera Kreitmeyer

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Recording by the Orchestra of the Opera of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, conductor Dian Tchobanov

Music director: Ljudmila Šumarova

Music accompanist: Teo Visintin

Stage manager: George Stanciu

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Many consider Giselle the queen of the romantic ballet and it is an utterly unusual appearance within the phenomenon of classical ballet. Such an attribution is earned due to the many aspects of its multiple complex structure, from the idea to its charismatic authors, dramaturgy of two entirely different acts and the music of Adolphe Adam. The contrast of the realism of one life story in the first act with the fantastic content of the white act, served as a model for all the subsequent great ballet works. It is a story about a deceived peasant girl, unhappily in love whose heart breaks from love and she then joins the world of fairies in which former fiancées who have died before their marriage and before they satisfied their yearning for dance live. For more than 120 years Giselle has been an integral part of the ballet repertoire of the CNT in Zagreb and the new production was choreographed and directed by José Carlos Martínez.

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