Classical simplicity: Boston Ballet’s ‘Giselle’

Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. 
September 19, 2019.The curtains rose on the first performance of Giselle on June 28, 1841, at the Paris Opera Ballet. Those dancing or attending perhaps knew that the ballet might be something big, but they couldn’t have known that it would shine through the centuries as it has — becoming conceivably the quintessential Romantic work in the ballet canon. Arguably, when dance lovers think of Romantic ballet, they think Giselle. Bost