Alessandra Ferri & Massimo Murru in Giselle and Albrecht's first encounter (act I) - La Scala 1996

Massimo Murru began studying dance at the La Scala Ballet School, from where he graduated in 1990. He became a member of the Corps de ballet in the same year. In 1994 he was named First Ballet Dancer after his first performance as protagonist in Kenneth MacMillan's L'Histoire de Manon.
Since then he danced leading roles in plenty of classic productions. His repertoire can count protagonist roles in The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko); Winter Dream (Kenneth MacMillan); Marguerite and Armand (Ashton); Apollo, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (George Balanchine), to only name a few.
He became one of the favourite dancers of Roland Petit who chose him to perform in many of his ballets: Carmen, The Bat opposite Alessandra Ferri, Proust, Notre Dame de Paris which made him the first Italian guest étoile to dance at the Paris Opera. Petit composed many works for Massimo Murru: Chéri with Carla Fracci, revived later opposite Dominique Kalfouni and Altinai Assiylmuratova, Bolero to music by Ravel, Swan Lake and its Evil Spells, and the solo The Dead Leaves. Mats Ek entrusted him with the role of Albrecht in Giselle and with that of Don José opposite Sylvie Guillem for the debut of his Carmen in the repertoire of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden.
At La Scala he danced the leading role in John Neumeier's Daphnis and Chloe and in William Forsythe's Quartet. Besides at La Scala in Milan and other important Italian theatres, Massimo Murru has danced leading roles in Buenos Aires, Sydney, Melbourne, New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Paris, and Mexico City. He is especially appreciated by Japanese audiences who have been able to see him perform many times over the years at the World Ballet Festival and in productions opposite Alessandra Ferri and Sylvie Guillem. In December 2003 he became Etoile of the Teatro alla Scala.
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The ballet is set in the vineyard country bordering the Rhine. Count Albrecht arrives with his squire and enters a cottage opposite Giselle’s. He emerges dressed as a peasant, submits his disguise to the squire’s inspection, and dismisses him. Hilarion has witnessed this exchange and is puzzled that the squire should show such deference to this youth, who is known to the villager as a fellow peasant named Loys. Loys excuses himself from joining the grape pickers so that he can be alone with Giselle. He swears eternal love, and she takes the traditional test with a daisy-“he loves me, he loves me not.” When it appears the answer will be “not,” she throws the flower away; Loys retrieves it and, by surreptitiously discarding a petal, comes up with the answer “he loves me.” Hilarion interrupts, protesting that he, and not Loys, truly loves Giselle. A quarrel ensues, and Hilarion’s suspicions deepen as Loys instinctively reaches for the sword that, as a nobleman, he is accustomed to wearing.
The villagers return, and Giselle invites them to join in a dance to celebrate the harvest.
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Giselle: Alessandra Ferri
Albrecht: Massimo Murru
with the La Scala Ballet Company
Ballet Director: Elisabetta Terabust
Original choreography: Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa
Revision: Patrice Bart
Music: Adolphe Adam
Conductor: Paul Connelly
Cover photo credits: LELLI E MASOTTI x Teatro Alla Scala

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Brilliant! I'm delighted with their dance!🌟🌷

[@ИринаКругловаМарозова]

Большое спасибо за видео Кланяюсь Я так люблю эту постановку Жизели и главных исполнителей, блистательного Массимо Мурру и такую великолепную Алессандра Ферри Артистизм, мастерство выдающиеся

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Роскошная постановка, великолепный спектакль, невероятно превосходные солисты Пара супер