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Sergei Polunin and Diana Vishneva in Giselle. Original performance April 20, 2014 at STANMUS. (This recording is from the TV premiere broadcast on January 8th, 2024 on the Russian Culture channel.) Ballet by Adolphe Adam. Production by the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. Conductor Anton Grishanin. (Russia, 2014) Characters and performers: Giselle - Diana Vishneva, Count Albert - Sergei Polunin, Berta - Kadriya Amirova, Bathilda - Ksenia Pokrovskaya, Duke - Ivan Mikhalev, Wilfried - Alexander Seleznev, Hans - Sergey Manuilov, Mirta - Oksana Kardash. The ballet 'Giselle' (full name 'Giselle, or Vilisa') was created in the era of romanticism and became the brightest example of ballet art of the second half of the 19th century. The plot is based on an old legend about girls who died from unhappy love and turned into magical Vilis creatures. At night they lure young people and force them to li
