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Giselle - Adam

Jean Coralli (c) DR

Dance Troup

From 14 June TO 20 June 2025
Teatro Massimo - Palermo
Program

Adam : Giselle 130 min

Cast
  • Orchestra del Teatro Massimo
  • Corpo di Ballo del Teatro Massimo
  • Conductor
    Nir Kabaretti
  • Choreographe
    Jean Coralli
    Jules Perrot
  • Venue Info
  • Seating Plan
  • Synopsis

Teatro Massimo - Palermo LocationPiazza Verdi - 90138 Palermo Italie

The history of the construction of the Teatro Massimo is almost as complicated as its reopening. As early as the end of the 18th century, Marquis Domenico Caracciolo lamented that Palermo did not have a lyrical theater befitting the hometown of Alessandro Scarlatti, the man who composed more than one hundred operas. Although the Teatro Carolino was built in 1801, it soon became too cramped and outdated, never suitable for the increasingly lavish productions of the Romantic era.

In 1844, the repertoire was still limited to Cimarosa, Mayr, Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. The "Carolino" was even renamed after the latter composer. While the "Bellini," thus named, continued to become outdated, it wasn't until 1851 that the construction of a new building was discussed, 1860 that the authorization appeared in the official journal of Sicily, and 1864 that an architectural competition was launched. Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile's project was chosen: at the architect's death in 1891, the Opera House was still not finished! Expropriating clergymen, solving technical problems, considering changing the project, and in the meantime, even building the Politeama for current performances all caused delays. It wasn't until 1897 that the "Massimo" finally opened its doors...

One could then applaud Enrico Caruso, a young and little-known tenor, on the theatre's stage, as well as singers such as Gigli, Stabile, and Gino Bechi, among the pride and joy of the Italian school. But it was only after the Second World War that the Massimo lived its heyday: conductors such as the young Giulini, Klemperer, and Scherchen came to lead the orchestra, Callas came to sing Brunnhilde and Norma, Sutherland was a revelation in the role of Lucia, while Szymanowski, Honegger, Dallapiccola and Stravinsky, amongst others, were performed....

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Giselle

Giselle is considered to be the romantic ballet par excellence.

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Since its creation in 1841 in Paris, not only has it never left the stage but above all, it laid the foundations of the white ballet with tutus and pointes. The music composed by Adolphe Adam wonderfully accompanies this poignant story of a young and noble abused peasant girl who dies of grief and then transforms into Wili. The role of Giselle is one of the most beautiful that all the greatest stars have danced or will dance one day or another.

In a bucolic landscape, a young girl dies of love and is transformed into a spirit that haunts the forest. Taken in by the Wilis, she enters an immaterial world where dance is the language of the soul. Her lover Albrecht, distraught, pursues this ghost at the risk of his life. The ballerinas, with their aerial presence, play with him as much as with gravity. Covered in mist, the scene gives way to spectral visions magnified by the haunting music of Adolphe Adam.

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