Giselle De Mats Ek

1982 ballet cullberg in stockholm.

Giselle de mats ek.

Mats ek in a nutshell. The original version on a libretto by théophile gautier and music by adolphe adam tells the story of how giselle a poor girl seduced by a deceitful nobleman dies when. This work is to romantic ballet what don juan is to classical theatre or carmen to french opera. Swedish choreographer mats ek ranks world wide as a specialist for telling old ballet stories in new forms.

Mats ek then a young choreographer takes on giselle monstre sacre of romantic ballet. Giselle one of the great ballets of the 19th century tells of the unrequited love of the country girl giselle. Duke albrecht disguised as a peasant wheedles his way into her affections until she is forced to realize that he is in fact in love with bathilde. Mats ek s extensive production of ballets includes more than twenty works for the cullberg ballet among them sensational reworks of classics like giselle 1982 swan lake 1987 and carmen 1992.