Choreographer and director: José Carlos Martínez
Conductors: Vjekoslav Babić, Berislav Šipuš
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, Milka Bartolović Hribar, Pavla Pećušak, Andrej Barbanov, Tomislav Petranović, George Stanciu
Making headpieces and decorations: Ana Trišler
Making courtier's headdress: Tihana Cizelj
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Giselle, a country girl: Asuka Maruo / Iva Vitić Gameiro / Natalia Kosovac / Rieka Suzuki Sumitomo / Hinako Shinzaki
Grof Albrecht: Simon Yoshida / Guilherme Gameiro Alves / Pavel Savin / Takuya Sumitomo
Wilfried, Albrecht's friend: Ovidiu Muscalu / Arnau Velazquez Rodriguez
Hilarion, forester: Adam Harris / Simon Yoshida / Taiguara Goulart / Arnau Velasquez Rodriguez
Duke of Courland: Azamat Nabiullin / Dan Rus
Bathilda, Duke's daughter: Ivančica Alajbeg / Daria Brdovnik / Maja Šehić
Bertha, Giselle's mother: Petra Vargović Stanciu / Dunja Novković Dimanovski
Pas de deux of the villagers: Anamarija Marković, Yuho Yoshioka / Saya Ikegami, Mario Diligente / Hinako Shinzaki, Takahiro Tamagawa / Dora Kovač, Mario Charlo Sobrino / Rizumu Tanaka, Ossian Montematrillo / Diana Montes Mota, Mattia Baccon
Giselle's friends: Elizabeth Anderson, Dora Blaić, Estrella Cebrino Torres, Saya Ikegami, Anna Letizia Joly, Dora Kovač, Mutsumi Matsuhisa, Ozana Mirković Blokar, Diana Laura Montes Mota, Candela Nieto Cortes, Cristiana Rotolo, Hinako Shinzaki, Valentina Štrok, Rizumu Tanaka, Helena Troha
Villagers: Elizabeth Anderson, Dora Blaić, Estrella Cebrino Torres, Makeely Georgia Foster, Anna Letizia Joly, Vera Kreitmeyer, Ozana Mirković Blokar, Diana Montes Mota, Candela Nieto Cortes, Lada Rora, Marta Sironić, Agnese Stancanelli, Maja Šehić, Leda Šeparović, Rizumu Tanaka, Atina Tanović, Helena Troha, Paulina Žanetić, Mattia Baccon, Samuele Berbenni, Thomas Boddington, Seth Bromley Clark, Pierre Gaston, Taiguara Goulart, Giovanni Messeri, Ossian Montematrillo, Andrea Podda, Justin Popa, Arnau Velazquez Rodriguez, Vid Vugrinec
Court ladies: Elizabeth Anderson, Estrella Cebrino Torres, Makeely Georgia Foster, Vera Kreitmeyer, Agnese Stancanelli, Maja Šehić, Leda Šeparović, Dunja Zoričić, Paulina Žanetić
Gentlemen: Samuele Berbenni, Thomas Boddington, Seth Bromley Clark, Pierre Gaston, Vito Križnjak, Ossian Montematrillo, Ovidiu Muscalu, Justin Popa, Dan Rus, Vid Vugrinec
Myrtha, fairy queen: Miruna Miciu / Lucija Radić Palinko / Anamarija Marković / Mutsumi Matsuhisa
Villa Moyna: Anamarija Marković, Cristiana Rotolo, Diana Laura Montes Mota, Leda Šeparović, Mutsumi Matsuhisa, Saya Ikegami, Hinako Shinzaki, Valentina Štrok
Villa Zulma: Anamarija Marković, Cristiana Rotolo, Diana Laura Montes Mota, Leda Šeparović, Mutsumi Matsuhisa, Saya Ikegami, Hinako Shinzaki, Valentina Štrok
Fairies: Elizabeth Anderson, Dora Blaić, Estrella Cebrino Torres, Makeely Georgia Foster, Saya Ikegami, Anna Letizia Joly, Vera Kretmeyer, Dora Kovač, Ozana Mirković Blokar, Diana Laura Montes Mota, Candela Nieto Cortes, Lada Rora, Cristiana Rotolo, Hinako Shinzaki, Marta Sironić, Agnese Stancanelli, Maja Šehić, Leda Šeparović, Valentina Štrok, Rizumu Tanaka, Atina Tanović, Helena Troha, Paulina Žanetić
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Concertmasters: Mojca Ramušćak, Zvonimir Krpan
Viola solo: Danko Burić / Natalia Anikeeva
Music director: Ljudmila Šumarova
Music accompanist: Teo Visintin
Stage manager: Ana Vnučec
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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.
