Their performance on February 8 and 9 comes after the ballet was staged three times last January with a cast of Albanian dancers
TIRANA, Feb. 6 – Internationally renowned Albanian ballet dancer Eris Nezha and his Italian wife Petra Conti, both soloists at Milan’s La Scala and most recently at the Boston Ballet, will be the special guests of the Giselle ballet this weekend at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Tirana.
Their performance on February 8 and 9 comes after the ballet was staged three times last January with a cast of Albanian dancers.
Eris Nezha started his dance training at the Albanian Dance Academy in 1992. In 1998 he was admitted to the Ballet School of Teatro alla Scala in Milan where he was promoted to principal dancer in 2011 after graduation.
With La Scala he has interpreted leading roles in nearly all of the Company’s productions, and has danced with famous guest artists and participated in tours representing La Scala in Brazil, Russia, Oman, Poland, Israel, and Japan.
In 2011, Nezha was awarded with the Premio Danza & Danza as the Best Interpreter of the year.
Nezha joined Boston Ballet as a principal dancer in 2013, and is married to Boston Ballet principal dancer Petra Conti, who graduated from the National Academy of Dance in Rome in 2006. In 2007, she joined the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, preparing roles with Elvira Tarasova.
One year later, Conti joined La Scala Ballet Company in 2009. She was promoted to principal dancer in 2011.
Considered one of the greatest international romantic ballets, Giselle, a ballet by French composer Adolphe Adam, retuned last January at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet with choreography by late Albanian maestro Agro Aliaj.
The ballet was first staged in Tirana in the late 1980s by Agron Aliaj, the great Albanian choreographer who tragically died in late 2012 after a road accident.
Soloists Gerd Vaso and Enada Hoxha were the protagonists even in this restage of the romantic ballet in two acts in the first three performances in January..
Originally choreographed by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, Giselle was first presented by the Ballet du Thꣴre de l’Acadꮩe Royale de Musique, Paris, France, on June 28, 1841.
Giselle is a ballet by Adolphe Adam. It consists of two acts, two scenes, with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Th갰hile Gautier.
“Giselle is naive, vulnerable, innocent, in love, in despair, mad, forgiving and self-sacrificing … and more. Albtrecht is an insensitive, selfish man who realizes too late that he has both fallen in love and destroyed the object of his love; he shows contrition, courage and even understanding of what happens to him and around him. The supporting characters of Hilarion and Mirtha and also have wide dramatic roles, too,” says the ballet’s official website.
