The Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater from Ukraine will visit Ventspils on January 31 at the “Jūras vārti” theater. Residents of Ventspils and guests of the city will be able to see one of the most beautiful and popular works of all time in the history of ballet – the ballet “Gisele”.
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According to the organizers of the host show, dance, its connection with youth, love and death is the central theme of the romantic period ballet “Gisele”. As is known, the mythical characters vilas – spirits of deceived virgins found in the folklore of the Slavic peoples, who in revenge can betray to death the boys they met at night, have their role. This motif became the source of inspiration for the ballet libretto by the French Romantic writer, poet and literary critic Théophile Gauthier.
The ballet Giselle, a joint work by Théophile Gauthier, librettist Gilles Henri Saint-Georges, composer Adolphe Charles Adan, choreographers Jean Coralli and Gilles Perrault, is still widely staged in theaters around the world following its premiere in Paris in 1841.
The ballet libretto recounts the first love and betrayal of a naïve fifteen-year-old girl, Giselle, followed by madness and death, leading to a frighteningly beautiful afterlife near the villas. However, in the end comes the victory of love over the fate of death.
The production value also lies in its choreography. The role of Giselle is a great challenge, which for many dancers represents the highest pinnacle of their career in the classical repertoire. Today “Gisele” is most often seen in the version created at the end of the 19th century by Marius Petipa, the choreographer of the Maria Theater in St. Petersburg. It is this version, edited by Leonid Lavrov, that the Kharkiv Ballet offers.
The Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater is one of the best and oldest musical theaters in Ukraine, working on the basis of the best traditions of Ukrainian and world cultural heritage, the history of which dates back to 1780.
Tickets for the show can be purchased at the “Bilešu paradīze” outlets and on the Internet.
