Premiered on December 25, 1997.
Presented with one interval.
Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes.
Libretto by Theophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges
Production: Vladimir Vasiliev
Choreography: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Mauris Petipa, Alexander Gorsky, Leonid Lavrovsky, Vladimir Vasiliev
Set Designer: Sergei Barkhin
Costume Designer: Hubert de Givanchi
Philippe Venet participating
Music Director: Algis Zhuraytis
Adviser: Galina Ulanova
Lighting Designer: Mikhail Sokolov
 A scene from Act I. Anastasia Goryacheva as Giselle. Photo by Nadezhda Bausova (from the Bolshoi Theatre museum). |  A scene from Act I. Anna Nikulina as Giselle. Nikolai Tsiskaridze as Count Albrecht. Photo by Yelena Fetisova. |  A scene from Act I. Anna Nikulina as Giselle. Yelena Bukanova as Berthe. Photo by Yelena Fetisova. |
