THE ROYAL Ballet’s performance of Giselle will be broadcast live at the Memo Arts Centre, Barry.
On Wednesday, April 6, at 7.15pm, Giselle will be broadcast from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Giselle is the quintessential Romantic classic, a love affair that begins in the real world and continues beyond the grave.
The ballet’s title role also offers one of the great challenges of the ballet repertory, as Giselle transforms from an innocent peasant girl, duped into love, to a forgiving spirit who saves her lover from death.
For the ballerina this is a role of two contrasting halves: in Act I she must appear naïve and artless, her dancing alive with an earthy enthusiasm; in Act II she transforms into light and air, her dancing so ethereal as to seem weightless.
In Peter Wright’s production, the dual aspect of the ballet is perfectly achieved: the first act dramatised in rich, naturalistic detail and the second with a spectral, moonlit beauty.
Tickets for the show cost £15 or £12.50 for concessions.
For more information about the show or for tickets please contact the Memo Arts Centre, Barry, box office on 01446 738622, email boxoffice@barrymemo.co.uk or visit memoartscentre.co.uk
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