Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Giselle [videorecording] : a romantic ballet / by Théophile Gautier ; Unitel presents ; directed by Hugo Niebeling and David Blair ; a production of Unitel GmbH & Co. KG and TVE.

Publisher, Date:

Hamburg, [Germany] : Deutsche Grammophon, c2005.

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Giselle, a simple peasant girl driven to madness and death through an unhappy love, becomes a ghost ordered to destroy the man who betrayed her, yet seeks to sustain him because of her undying love.

Subjects:

Ballets.

Love -- Drama.

Betrayal -- Drama.

Redemption -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Ghost plays.

Other Author:

Fracci, Carla.

Bruhn, Erik, 1928-1986.

Lander, Toni.

Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872.

Niebeling, Hugo.

Blair, David.

Saint-Georges, Henri, 1799-1875

Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856. Giselle.

American Ballet Theatre.

Deutsches Opernhaus Berlin. Orchester.

Unitel Film- und Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft mbH.

Other Title:

Romantic ballet.

Giselle (Choreographic work : Blair after Coralli and Perrot)

Notes:

"Filmed at Madrid, Bronston Studios, 10 & 11/1968."

Program notes (8 p.) inserted in container.

Music by Adolphe Adam ; choreography by David Blair, after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot ; based on the American Ballet Theatre production of Giselle, as produced on the stage by Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith ; stage version directed by David Blair ; libretto, Théophile Gautier & Vernoy de Saint-Georges.

Carla Fracci, Erik Bruhn, Toni Lander, Bruce Marks, Eleanor D'Antuono, Ted Kivitt and other members of the American Ballet Theatre ; Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, John Lanchbery, conductor.

DVD player required.

Publisher Number:

B0004760-09

Other Number:

226264153

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

290653

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 792.842 Giselle

Medium:

[videorecording]