"She is a Giselle in full respect of tradition, yet, as you will see, different from the others". With these words Eleonora Abbagnato presents her choreography of one of the masterpieces in the history of ballet. Show on stage from today (at 20.30) and until 26 September at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari.
For the international dance étoile a double debut: as a choreographer, and in a title that is proposed in Cagliari in the first performance.
The appointment also inaugurates the "Autumn in music" review which foresees the return of the public to the hall, currently distributed between the two lodges.
Giselle is a romantic ballet in two acts by Adolphe Adam, created in Paris in 1841 by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli, in collaboration with Jules Henri-Vernoy de Saint-Georges, on a libretto that Théophile Gautier wrote by merging one of his short stories (La Cafetière, 1831) with the novel Über Deutschland by Heinrich Heine.
"Giselle is the ballet of romanticism - explains Eleonora Abbagnato - a classic, so obviously I reported the story as it is but with a touch of French school, technique, quality". On the podium to lead the orchestra of the Teatro Lirico will be David Garforth. The two main roles are entrusted to Maia Makhateli / Ana Sophia Scheller (Giselle) and Flavio Salamanka / Michele Satriano (Albrecht). The production of the show is by Daniele Cipriani Entertainment, the staging is by the Fondazione Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Daniele Cipriani Entertainment.
"The spectators will see a less static corps de ballet than that of the Coralli-Perrot choreography, also participating in the famous pas de deux, both of the first and second act", the promise. "There will be moments of pantomime, as well as the famous scene of the madness and death of Giselle as in the ballet we all know, but they will have a more modern and readable feel for the viewer".
(Unioneonline / vl)