Coliseum, LondonThe Mikhailovsky's Giselle is very old-school: charmingly staged and with carefully detailed mime that tells you everything you need to know about the plot. I don't know of any other production that elicits so much from the opening scene, in which Albrecht's manservant anxiously and disapprovingly attempts to talk his master out of his plan to seduce Giselle.Yet, watching this production on opening ni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PM on March 27, 2013