Sir Peter Wright’s classical adaptation of Marius Petipa’s choreography of Giselle for the Royal Ballet, makes this a ballet worth going to see again and again. Hauntingly Romantic, Adolphe Adam’s sweeping music carries the tale of love, despair and betrayal. Set in the medieval Rhineland, Giselle is the story of a young peasant girl who falls in love with Loys, who lives in a nearby hovel. Loys, who is in fact Duke Albrecht and engaged to be married to an aristocratic lady, makes love to Giselle who is completely smitten. Later she goes mad. Elizabeth Barley
