Giselle
Contributors: Chulaki, Mikhail; Tikhonov, Kiril; Lavrovskiĭ, Leonid Mikhaĭlovich, 1905-1967; Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910; Coralli, Jean, 1779-1854; Perrot, Jules, 1810-1892; Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856; Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872; Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856; Bolʹshoĭ teatr SSSR. Balet; Washington Performing Arts Society; Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1966
Language: eng
Other titles: Bolshoi Ballet; Giselle (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ after Coralli and Perrot)
Description: S. Hurok and Washington Performing Arts Society, Patrick Hayes, managing director, presents "Bolshoi Ballet," from The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, director general: Mikhail Chulaki, principal choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich, conductors: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Alexander Kopylov, Kiril Tikhonov, guest conductor: Arthur Lief, with full Corps de Ballet and symphony orchestra, tour director: Mikhail Anastasiev, assistant director: Bolshoi Theatre. "Giselle," Act II, music by Adolphe Adam, choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, and Marius Petipa, revised by Leonid Lavrovsky, scenario by Theophile Gautier, on a theme of Heinrich Heine, V. Saint-Georges and Jean Coralli, world premiere: Paris, June 28, 1941, first performance, the Bolshoi Theatre, Nov. 25, 1843, designedr: B.I. Volkov, conductor: Kiril Tikhonov.
Notes: Washington Coliseum, Wednesday evening, May 11, 1966 at 8:30.

Cast: Natalia Bessmertnova, Mikhail Lavrovsky, Vladimir Levashev, Maya Samokhvalova, Natalia Taborko, Ida Vasilieva.

LC copy shelved under: Bolshoi Ballet.

With: Raymonda. Issued together.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).