International Ballet Company

"Giselle", the tragic story of love, deception and betrayal of a peasant woman of extreme beauty and innocence.

The story of "Giselle" takes place in the valleys near the Rhine where we live the tragic love story between Albretch, Duke of Silesia, who pretends to be a villager named Loys to woo the beautiful Giselle and the ranger Hilarion deeply in love with the young woman. The terrible deception leads Giselle to death before her wedding and as a result to become a Willi for all eternity, night spirit of the woods that kill men past midnight.