Recommended Age: 5+ Giselle is not just the best-known title within the French composer Adolphe Adam’s oeuvre, but also a significant work of the Romantic period. The theme of impossible love between mortals and supernatural creatures lies at the basis of the Slavic legend of the Wilis (young brides-to-be who have died before the wedding), adapted by Heinrich Heine. The idea was subsequently taken over by the novelist, poet, and ...