Costume designer Roberta Guidi di Bagno scrunched her eyes to get a better look at the nearly finished medieval-style jacket on a standing form in Houston Ballet's wardrobe studio. She wanted to see a ...

This spring Pennsylvania Ballet will premiere Artistic Director Angel Corella's re-staging of Giselle, ballet's hauntingly romantic classic. Presented by West Laurel Hill Cemetery, performances run ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a culture maven and arts enthusiast. Aug 02, 2025, 05:09pm EDT Chloe Misseldine as Giselle in Giselle. “Youth is wasted on the ...

Dating today is a lot different than it was when the classic ballet Giselle premiered in 1841 by what is now known as the Paris Opera Ballet. In @giselle, a new reimagining of the tale presented by ...

Lady vampires never go out of style, but calling “Giselle” timeless would be a mistake. Few other ballets have been kept as stylistically pure from start to finish as the Romantic gem created for ...

The San Diego Ballet version of “Giselle” has moved from Europe, where it premiered in 1841, to Spanish Colonial California, where a fragile peasant girl falls in love with a wealthy man who is ...

Giselle is one weird and wonderful ballet. Over 180 years after its Paris premiere, it continues to startle and move audiences with its go-for-broke otherworldliness. It plays like a standard ...

LONDON — It’s never good news when the curtain draws back before the second act, and the artistic director steps out to speak. And so it went Thursday night at the Royal Opera House here, where ...

Who could look healthier on stage than this sprite with her exultant bounciness and bursting merriment? But here she was, transformed into a very young and gullible Giselle, and the sickest Giselle I ...