Pirouette between true love and betrayal—cruelty and forgiveness—in the Philadelphia Ballet’s modern revival of "Giselle," debuting at the Academy of Music on February 29th and continuing through ...

Lady vampires never go out of style, but calling “Giselle” timeless would be a mistake. Few other ballets have been kept as stylistically pure from start to finish as the Romantic gem created for ...

Costume designer Roberta Guidi di Bagno scrunched her eyes to get a better look at the nearly finished medieval-style jacket on a standing form in Houston Ballet's wardrobe studio. She wanted to see a ...

The two-act ballet Giselle premiered in 1841. Today, this story of a peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman in disguise is considered a classic. There’s a love triangle, a mad scene, and ...

One of ballet’s oldest and most endearing works is being re-staged by the Pennsylvania Ballet this spring. The hauntingly romantic classic known as Giselle will run March 7-17 at the Academy of Music.

To open its 50th anniversary season, which is also the final one for its artistic director, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will present a restaging of “Giselle,” one of the most popular masterpieces in the ...

The romantic ballet masterpiece *Giselle* premiered in Paris in 1841 by the Paris Opera Ballet (then known as the Royal Academy of Music Ballet Company). While *Swan Lake* and *La Bayadère* premiered ...