Giselle by Adam, Thu 17 Nov 2022, From (2022/2023), Conductor Michael Nündel, Gärtnerplatztheater, Munich, Germany

The fun-loving Giselle falls in love with the daredevil Albrecht and gives up her previous life plan because of him. She realizes too late that he was only playing with her. She dies from this experience. From now on, Albrecht has to live with the knowledge that he has Giselle on his conscience. The thoughts of the victims of his selfish actions haunt him like vengeful furies. Can he find forgiveness before he is hunted to death? In 1841, a text by Heinrich Heine about the legendary figures of the Wilis gave Théophile Gautier the idea of ​​making a ballet out of the material. Wilis are young brides who died before the wedding and cannot find peace: in the forest at night they dance every man they meet to death. Under the motto "Morals are not empty spaces", Karl Alfred Schreiner presents the romantic dance piece by Adolphe Adam as a dramatic battle between the sexes and an examination of one's own abysses, which not least represent the wilderness of the forest.