Performance Of Giselle

Giselle.

Ballet «Giselle» (full name «Giselle, or Вилисы», FR. Giselle, ou les Wilis), perhaps the most romantic piece of the last centuries. Among the countless stories ever told in the language of dance, has never created anything more beautiful and sad than this drama.

Due to the charm of his plot and perfect choreography of this romantic masterpiece entered into classical ballet and became, along with «Swan lake»the most famous and popular product in the world.

It is in «Giselle» finally established ballet romanticism. Dance in «Giselle» received poetic spirituality. In solo «fantastic» party included a variety of flying, create the impression of lightness characters. The heroine went on pointes. In «earthly», нефантастических images acquired dance national specificity. In the ballet established a new type of drama, where dance is not an illustration of a plot of episodes, but it is the main poetic means of expressing the artistic content.

Timeless story of love, betrayal and repentance was first presented on 28 June 1841 on the stage of the Paris Grand Opera, which was then called the Royal Academy of music and dance. The incredible success of the premiere defined further development of ballet. Over the next eighteen years Paris Opera gave one hundred fifty performances of Giselle, which invariably ended in a never-ending applause of spectators, better known.

We never see danced great ballerina Carlotta grisi. But never forget her because two no less great people - choreography by Jules Perrot and poet Theophile Gautier - were in love with this woman and created for her «Giselle».

This ballet, as he wrote, newspaper, was founded by several lovers men to «serve as a showcase for the talents of a young ballerina». The story, which was formed when working on this piece, was no less interesting than a ballet libretto. Ballerina Carlotta grisi, whose real name was (real name-Karon Adel Maria Giuseppina grisi, was born in Italy in 1819. In 1834 in Naples Carlotta met a talented and famous French dancer and choreographer Jules Perrot.

Carlotta was the protege of Jules Perrot, he has coached and taught her, put her dance numbers. Carlotta was performing under the name of Madame Perrault. In 1837 Perros went to the Grand Opera, to engage in further promotion of the career Карлотты, and they started to make the tour of the theatres of Europe.

At the same time, Adolphe Charles Adam, already famous composer, returned to Paris from St. Petersburg, where he went after Maria Taglioni, the famous French dancer, who appeared in Russia from 1837 to 1842. Writing in St. Petersburg for Taglioni ballet «'ecumeur, in Paris Adam began to work on the ballet «Giselle».

The script was written by the French poet and novelist Теофилем Gauthier according to the ancient Slavic legend, reproductive Heinrich Heine in the book «The German». The legend tells about the Vilis - girls, who died from unhappy love before the wedding. At midnight Wilis go out of their graves and dancing. Just a passerby that met them on the way, pulled in a dance in which the Wilis circling him until he falls down dead.

To provide the action of a General nature, Gauthier deliberately mixed country and titles: uninhabited place actions in the near Thuringia, he did albert, Duke of Silesian (graph it is called in later versions of the libretto), and the father of the bride, Prince (later versions he Duke) Курляндским.

Theophile Gautier treated, as they say, «with respect to Jules Perrot and supported his candidacy for the participation in the creation of the ballet. Perhaps partly because he Gauthier was married to his sister Карлотты Grisi - Ernest. But a dedicated this ballet karlotta hoping to win her heart. Gaultier was in love with this woman and wrote the libretto of the «soul of the poet lover».

In the work of «Giselle " took part in the famous playwright, a skilled author of many libretto Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean Coralli, 1831 became ballet master of the Grand Opera.

Jules Perrot continued to love this woman and did everything to turn it into a prima ballerina with an international reputation.

The whole party Giselle, all the drawing of the main roles in the ballet was developed Perrault, but his name wasn't even mentioned in the playbill of the Paris premiere of the ballet. All the glory went Coralli, who took advantage of undefined and unseen position Perrault and seized the authorship of choreography of the ballet.

The success of the ballet was tremendous, the audience literally pouring tears on the history of the poor deceived girls. Critics have declared, that «Giselle» is the biggest ballet of his time. They also immediately was elevated to the status stars Карлотту grisi. Batch Count Albrecht performed Lucien Petipa - younger brother Marius Petipa, «father» of classical ballet.

Currently there are no doubts about who is the author of the choreographic scenes in the ballet. This is genius Jules Perrot. Coralli put the dancing.

Creating the part of Giselle for Карлотты grisi, Jules Perrot approved ballet romanticism and finally made a ballet such as a genre of art, like music and poetry. He fulfilled his dream - the success of the ballet instantly made this woman grisi celebrity status of the world level.

Soon after the premiere, Jules Perrot went to England. In the historical ballet memoirs of the opinion that it was caused not so much by Coralli, but that Carlotta «showed favor to Gaultier in gratitude for his glory, which he helped her to achieve.» On other versions, she was fascinated by a handsome young man by Lucien Petipa.

Whatever it was, and betrayed the 21-year-old Ballerina one person for another, but her mentor always remained Jules Perrot, and she was always a prima ballerina.

All the latest achievements of French ballet quickly transferred to the Russian stage. Ballet «Giselle» was staged in St. Petersburg in 1842, a year after Paris premiere. He still included in the repertoires of many musical theatres.

Petersburg staged completed a trend that has developed in the romantic ballet Europe, when started to dawn ballet theatre as a musical. Determining a meaningful source of choreographic composition music became, not only a literary scenario.

In his monograph Yuri Slonimsky writes: «the French «Giselle» - a sentimental romance, dedicated to the unhappy love гризетки, пейзанки, which were many in those days. The trouble heroine - «accident». Her sense remains in memory attractive to curiosity naive illusion. «Russian «Giselle» - sublime drama heart. Here the love is not an illusion, and the symbol of faith.

In its time the part of Giselle ballerina danced with a world name: Anna Pavlova, Olga Spesivtseva, Andreyanova Elena, Faith Coralli, Galina Ulanova. Ulanova became the founder of a whole tradition, not merely carrying out the ballet of the party, and the real dramatic role, which in addition to the integrity of the technical execution of dance elements of particular importance is given to the acting talent of the soloist of the ballet. And the great Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso for the execution of the part of Giselle was awarded the high title la bailarina absoluta.