One of ballet’s oldest and most endearing works is being re-staged by the Pennsylvania Ballet this spring. The hauntingly romantic classic known as Giselle will run March 7-17 at the Academy of Music.

“Giselle,” composed by Adolphe Adam, is the oldest continuously-performed ballet in the art form’s history. It tells the story of a peasant woman who dies of a broken heart upon learning her beau is a ...

Dating today is a lot different than it was when the classic ballet Giselle premiered in 1841 by what is now known as the Paris Opera Ballet. In @giselle, a new reimagining of the tale presented by ...

"Giselle" could be called one of the most romantic of ballets — albeit "hauntingly" so, as the course of true love certainly doesn't run smooth. There's deception and the broken heart of Giselle, a ...

Lady vampires never go out of style, but calling “Giselle” timeless would be a mistake. Few other ballets have been kept as stylistically pure from start to finish as the Romantic gem created for ...

Natalia Osipova as Giselle draws the kind of awestruck, reverent reaction from ballet lovers that still breathes from contemporary descriptions of Marie Taglioni or Vaslav Nijinsky. Osipova’s ...

Costume designer Roberta Guidi di Bagno scrunched her eyes to get a better look at the nearly finished medieval-style jacket on a standing form in Houston Ballet's wardrobe studio. She wanted to see a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Giselle” is everyone’s favorite story ballet, at least everyone over the age of 12, and there’s good reason for that. More than the popular “The Nutcracker” ...