Running time approximately 113 minutes (Ballet), 10 minutes (features).
Extra features: The romance of Giselle ; The Corps de ballet in Giselle ; Cast gallery.
Program notes and synopsis in English, French, and German (19 pages ; illustrations) inserted in container.
Music, Adolphe Adam, revised by Joseph Horovitz ; choreography, Marius Petipa, after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot ; scenario, Théophile Gautier after Heinrich Heine ; directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon.
Giselle, Natalia Osipova ; Count Albrecht, Carlos Acosta ; Hilarion, Thomas Whitehead ; Wilfred, Johannes Stepanek ; Berthe, Deidre Chapman ; The Duke of Courland, Christopher Saunders ; Bathilde, Christina Arestis ; Myrtha, Hikaru Kobayashi ; Moyna, Elizabeth Harrod ; Zulme, Akane Takada ; artists of the Royal Ballet ; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House ; Boris Gruzin, conductor.
Recorded Royal Opera House, Covent Garden January 2014.
DVD-9; NTSC; all regions; widescreen (16:9); LPCM 2.0; DTS digital surround.
Extra feature subtitles in English.
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