STAGIONE DANZA 2022

Giselle

BALLET OF TEATRO ALLA SCALA

A story of love, betrayal and redemption, between joyful peasant feasts and the white crowd of willi, fascinating as ruthless: Giselle, the romantic ballet par excellence, continues to move the audience with its delicate history and the sensitivity of the interpretation of the protagonists, in the contrast between a solar world and a dark and terrible kingdom, populated with spirits.

The peasant Giselle and Prince Albrecht are two paradigmatic roles of the academic repertoire: in the course of the choreography they are called to vary the technical-expressive register from carefree joy to despair, from easy-going self-mastery to the awareness that life has no purpose without love. La Scala Ballet Corps brings back to the stage the unforgettable choreography of Coralli-Perrot in the reprise of Yvette Chauviré, extraordinary étoile who passed away a few years ago, that with the care and refinement of roles like Giselle has exalted the classical tradition in all its purity and delivered its fame to the world. Her version, for the first time at La Scala in 1950, saw her in the role of the unfortunate country girl who dreamed of love and loved to dance. Perfect in its structure, embellished by the staging by Aleksandr Benois, Giselle is a title that is part of the history of our Theatre, heritage of the company for countless years, and the artists of La Scala who have represented it in many countries of the world, infusing each shot with new sap and new emotions keeping alive this wonderful show, until the memorable edition of 2021 to the extraordinary presence of Carla Fracci.

Partner of the Teatro alla Scala tours

22 | 23 april 2022

Teatro Comunale

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Choreography Jean Coralli – Jules Perrot

DURATION

Part 1: 55 minutes
Interval: 25 minutes
Part 2: 45 minutes

Conductor of TCBO Orchestra

Valery Ovsyanikov

Ballet Director

Manuel Legris

Personaggi e interpreti principali

GISELLE
Nicoletta Manni

ALBRECHT
Timofej Andrijashenko

DUKE OF COURLAND
Giuseppe Conte

THE PRINCESS OF BATHILDE
Emanuela Montanari

THE MOTHER OF GISELLE
Beatrice Carbone

HILARION
Marco Agostino

WILFRIED
Gioacchino Starace

THE BIG HUNTER
Massimo Garon

“THE PEASANTS” PAS DE DEUX
Agnese Di Clemente  Mattia Semperboni (22 april)
Alessandra Vassallo Federico Fresi (23 april)

SIX FRIENDS OF GISELLE
Christelle Cennerelli, Camilla Cerulli,  Denise Gazzo, Marta Gerani,
Linda Giubelli, Giordana Granata

MYRTHA, THE QUEEN OF THE WILLI
Virna Toppi

TWO WILLI
Alessandra Vassallo, Vittoria Valerio
& the Corps of the ballet of Teatro alla Scala

22 | 23 april 2022

Teatro Comunale

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MAIN PARTNER

FRI 22 APR | H 8.30PM

SAT 23 APR | H 8.30PM

THE DUKE OF COURLAND

Giuseppe Conte

THE PRINCESS BATHILDE

Emanuela Montanari

THE MOTHER OF GISELLE

Beatrice Carbone

HILARION

Marco Agostino

WIFRIED

Gioacchino Starace

THE BIG HUNTER

Massimo Garon

“THE PEASANTS” PAS DE DEUX

“THE PEASANTS” PAS DE DEUX

SIX FRIENDS OF GISELLE

Cristelle Cennerelli

Camilla Cerulli

Denise Gazzo

Marta Gerani

Linda Giubelli

Giordana Granata

MURTHA, QUEEN OF THE WILLI

                              TWO WILLI

Alessandra Vassallo

Resumption of choreography
YVETTE CHAUVIRÉ

 

Music
ADOLPHE ADAM

 

Scenes and Costumes
ALEKSANDR BENOIS
reworked by ANGELO SALA e CINZIA ROSSELLI

 

Lights
MARCO FILIBECK

TEATRO COMUNALE DI BOLOGNA ORCHESTRA

With its long-standing tradition, the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna has been led by Musical Directors like Sergiu Celibidache,Zoltán Peskó, Vladimir Delman, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Michele Mariotti. Some of the conductors who have worked with the ensemble include Gary Bertini, Myung-Whun Chung, James Conlon, Pinchas Steinberg, Valery Gergiev, Eliau Inbal, Vladimir Jurowskij, Daniel Oren, Peter Maag, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovič, Esa Pekka Salonen, Georg Solti, Christian Thielemann, Charles Dutoit, Georges Prêtre. The Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale is often invited abroad (The Netherlands, Romania, Spain, France, and Switzerland) and has played in many prestigious festivals (Amsterdam 1987, Parma 1990, Wiesbaden 1994, Santander 2004 and 2008, Aix en Provence 2005, Savonlinna 2006, Macao 2013, Muscat 2015, Guanajuato in Mexico 2017, Paris 2018). A special connection with Japan has brought to several tours, including the tour in June 2019 in Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama, Fukuoka, with performances of Rigoletto and of Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Its numerous recordings include La Favoriteconducted by Richard Bonynge; Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio conducted by Zoltán Peskó, Il Barbiere di Siviglia conducted by Giuseppe Patané, La Fille du Régiment conducted by Bruno Campanella, Le Maschere and La Bohème conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti, La Scala di Seta conducted by Gabriele Ferro, MacbethManon LescautRigolettoLa Cenerentola, Messa Solenne, and the video production of Vespri siciliani and Giovanna d’Arco and Werther conducted by Riccardo Chailly, Armide conducted by Daniele Gatti, Simon Boccanegra and Attila conducted by Michele Mariotti.

The Orchestra, conducted by Mariotti, has recorded a CD under the label Decca with sacred arias sung by Juan Diego Flórez, and an album under Sony with Romantic arias sung by Nino Machaidze; under Deutsche Grammophon Le Comte Ory with Flórezand La Nuit de Mai – a selection or arias and songs by Leoncavallo – with Placido Domingo;andunder the label PENTATONE it released a CD containing overtures by Rossini, to celebrate 150 years since the death of the composer. In April 2021 the Orchestra recorded under Deutsche Grammophon an album coming out soon with the tenor Benjamin Bernheim and Frédéric Chaslin on the podium.

In March 2013 the artistic ensembles of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, led by Mariotti, opened the IV International Festival Mstislav Rostropovich in Moscow, where they performed Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. In October 2015, again with Mariotti on the podium, they opened the Lingotto Music Festival at the Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, where they performed Stabat Mater by Rossini, and his Overture and Ballet Music from Guillaume Tell. The Teatro Comunale’s 2018 production of La Bohème conducted by Mariotti and staged by Graham Vick received the Abbiati Award as best show.

After working with the Rossini Opera Festival for nearly thirty years (from 1988 to 2016), the year 2017 brought new collaborations between the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Verdi Festival in Parma, where the Orchestra performed, among other productions, the Stiffelio directed by Graham Vick. Staged at the Teatro Farnese, the show was highly appreciated by audience and critics alike and was granted the Special Prize at the 37thedition of the “Franco Abbiati” Critics award. The Orchestra’s engagements with the Verdi Festival in 2019 included Luisa Miller at the Chiesa di San Francesco del Prato in Parma, and Aida at the Teatro Verdi in Busseto, and in 2020 a symphonic concert at the Parco Ducale in Parma conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Since January 2022, the Musical Director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna has been Oksana Lyniv.