The ever-innovative and routinely impressive Ballet Cymru here present a brand-new production of Adolphe Adam’s haunting and romantic classic.

Premiered in Paris in 1841, Giselle tells the story of a peasant girl who dies of a broken heart when she finds out that the man she loves - a nobleman named Albrecht - is engaged to another woman. 

After Giselle’s funeral, Albrecht visits her unconsecrated grave and finds himself in mortal danger. The Wilis, a sisterhood of ghosts who, in life, were jilted by their lovers, have returned to take their terrible revenge...