“Giselle”, Performance by The Royal Ballet Company, at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Deadline: 25/11/03
Date:
Friday 6th February 2004
Time: Performance
starts: 7.30 p.m.
Venue: The
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7QA
We
have pleasure in announcing our 2004 Ballet event. This will be a performance
by the Royal Ballet Company at the wonderful Covent Garden Theatre. We
have secured excellent seats and we have arranged for our guests to meet
for a glass of wine and light canapés in the Floral Hall during the interval.
It is sure to be a popular night, so get your bookings in fast!
Love that transcends even death provides the heart of this most famous
and poignant of romantic ballets. First performed in Paris in 1841, Giselle
tells of a gentle peasant girl who is driven to kill herself when she
discovers that her lover ‘Loys’ in reality Count Albrecht has deceived
her. Joining the ghostly ranks of betrayed women who rise from the dead
to prey on the men who have destroyed them, Giselle cannot seek vengeance.
Instead, she protects her remorseful lover when he visits her moonlit
grave, defending him until dawn from the deathly touch of her phantom
sisters. Peter Wright’s sensitive staging, with atmospheric designs by
John F. Macfarlane, heightens the contrasting human and supernatural worlds,
while its title role provides one of the most technically challenging
and emotionally bewitching parts a ballerina can find in the classical
repertory.
Ticket Price: All seats are “Prime Stall Seats” £74.00 (central stall), £62.80 (less central Stall).
Reservations:
events@stanfordalumni.org.uk,
or tel/fax: 020 8244 0794 and then send your cheque
(made payable to the Stanford Club of Great Britain)
to 2 Old Brompton
Road, PO Box 87, London SW7 3DQ.