Here's a selection from a classic recording of Adolphe Adam's Giselle. Decca originally released this recording in the early '60s, and re-released it on CD earlier this year. Herbert von Karajan leads ...

“Giselle,” composed by Adolphe Adam, is the oldest continuously-performed ballet in the art form’s history. It tells the story of a peasant woman who dies of a broken heart upon learning her beau is a ...

“Giselle” is nearly perfect, even if the ballet’s composer, Adolphe Adam, was no Tchaikovsky. It’s got love, betrayal, redemption and death, not to mention scenes of painterly dancing. As the style of ...

The Grand Kyiv Ballet is taking their performance of ballet classic "Giselle" on the road, coming to Nashville as one of their tour stops. Dancers will leap and twirl on the stage of the Grand Ole ...

"Giselle" could be called one of the most romantic of ballets — albeit "hauntingly" so, as the course of true love certainly doesn't run smooth. There's deception and the broken heart of Giselle, a ...

Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) was a French composer best known for the ballet Giselle and the Christmas carol O Holy Night. He also wrote many works for the Paris Opera and taught at the Paris Conservatory ...

The story of the 1841 French ballet “Giselle” by French composer Adolphe Adam is the stuff of European fairy tales (and horror movies): vengeful young lady spirits put spells on living young men that ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Kansas City Ballet's 2022-2023 season opens with the tragic love story, Giselle, ...

The Houston Ballet will conclude its 2015-16 season with the world premiere of artistic director Stanton Welch’s Giselle June 9-19.Courtesy Photo The Houston Ballet will conclude its 2015-16 season ...

Since its premiere in Paris in 1841, Giselle has captured the imagination and torn at the heart with its Romantic tale of love, tragedy, vengeful ghosts, yearning and madness. Adolphe Adam’s exquisite ...