'GISELLE' IS A JOY

From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 2, 1987| Author: Christine Temin, Globe Staff | Copyright information

BOSTON BALLET -- In "Giselle," at the Wang Center for the

Performing Arts, last night. Choreography by Leonid

Lavrovsky after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. Music by

Adolphe Adam. Repeats, with cast changes, through Oct. 11. Giselle" is as hardy as its heroine is frail. Each generation finds something to like in this most durable remnant of the mid-19th-century French style, a ballet about a sweet peasant girl who is betrayed by a nobleman in di...

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