Russian ballet dancers to perform in Baku
Russian ballet dancers will perform in the Azerbaijan State
Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre on Saturday, AzerTac state news
agency reported.
Leading soloists from the Mikhaylovsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg
Sabina Yapparova (Jizel) and Andrey Yakhnyuk (Albrect) have been
invited to take part in Adolphe Adam`s "Giselle" which is the part
of the repertoire of major ballet houses in the world and always
enjoys great love and interest of the audience.
People `s Artist of Azerbaijan, Professor Javanshir Jafarov will
conduct the opera.
Giselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri
Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe
Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The
librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine. The
ballet tells the story of a lovely peasant girl named Giselle who
has a passion for dancing, and when she finds out the man she loves
is engaged to someone else she dies of a broken heart. Giselle was
first presented by the Ballet du Théâtre de l`Académie Royale de
Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, France, on June 28,
1841.
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