This romantic ballet lasting more than two hours, conducted to perfection by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, offers us a magical and sumptuous journey, accompanied by the Paris National Opera Orchestra.

Vaporous tutus, pointe shoes, white gauze, tulle: Giselle marks the peak of romanticism. In a bucolic landscape, a young girl dies of love and transforms into a spirit who haunts the forest. Collected by the Wilis, she enters an immaterial world where dance is the language of the soul. Her lover Albrecht, distraught, pursues this ghost at the risk of his life. The ballerinas, with their aerial presence, play with it as much as with gravity. Covered in mist, the scene gives way to spectral visions magnified by the captivating music of Adolphe Adam. Created at the Royal Academy of Music on June 28, 1841, the ballet traveled to Russia and disappeared from the repertoire before its return to France in 1910. It is today in the version by Patrice Bart and Eugène Polyakov, faithful to the choreography original work of Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, that ballet continues to offer us its magic.

PALAIS GARNIER, 75009
From May 2 to June 1
At 7:30 p.m.
From 12 to 170 €