Dancing to Death

From an idyllic harvest scene, all the way to a forest haunted by the spirits of jilted brides and wronged virgins, Giselle covers off heartbreak, death, betrayal *and* all the prettier sort of classical ballet feels you want from a night with Birmingham's most royal of ballets. The second act is notoriously difficult to perform, with a high octane troupe of ghostly maidens seeking out revenge on any male that ends up in their forest, forcing them to dance until they drop down dead (ever so balletically), from exhaustion. The vertebrate tingling Royal Ballet Sinfonia orchestra is on — capital T — Tunes, performing the happy, hopeful, terrifying, moody score. At the Hippodrome from September 25 to 28, tickets are from £15 rising to £46.