[Photo album] Giselle – La Scala with Nicoletta Manni, Timofej Andrijashenko, Jacopo Tissi

La Scala brought Giselle – its calling-card ballet – back to Milan (after a recent tour to Bologna) with an excellent cast featuring Nicoletta Manni as Giselle and Timofej Andrijashenko as Albrecht.

Manni found herself with a different Albrecht for the second performance as La Scala has welcomed back Jacopo Tissi after he left the Bolshoi Company in March after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Below are photo albums of these two casts.

Giselle – Teatro alla Scala: Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko

Saturday 9 July 2022 – at 8pm –  Premiere

Giselle
Nicoletta Manni

Albrecht
Timofej Andrijashenko

Giselle's Mother
Beatrice Carbone

Hilarion 
Marco Agostino

Wilfried
Christian Fagetti

Peasants Pas de deux
Agnese Di Clemente, Mattia Semperboni

Myrtha, Queen of the Willis
Maria Celeste Losa

Two Willis
Alessandra Vassallo, Vittoria Valerio

Giselle – Teatro alla Scala: Nicoletta Manni and Jacopo Tissi

Tuesday 12 July 2022 – at 8pm

Giselle
Nicoletta Manni

Albrecht
Jacopo Tissi

Giselle's Mother
Beatrice Carbone

Hilarion 
Christian Fagetti

Wilfried
Navrin Turnbull

Peasants Pas de deux
Agnese Di Clemente, Mattia Semperboni

Myrtha, Queen of Willis
Maria Celeste Losa

Two Willis
Alessandra Vassallo, Vittoria Valerio

Gramilano( Editor )

Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.