Osipova is the greatest Giselle I've ever seen, or hope to see, especially in Act II, in which she seems to enter an alternate reality and take you with her.
I've seen her in screenings by the Bolshoi and the Royal Ballet, and live onstage with ABT at the Met. Of these productions, I think the greatest was the
Bolshoi's (with David Hallberg). It had a terrible of conviction about it, a true tragic sense. When Giselle disappeared at the end, she did so very
slowly, in the same direction as the other wilis (toward the lake), facing Albrecht while doing two corkscrew-like turns. The RB production, which I also
have on blu-ray, is remarkable, among other things, for its excellent use of mime, and, in connection with this, for making Giselle's mother a real part. ABT's
was less thought-out except by the principal dancers, Osipova and Stephen McRae. This was the performance in which she fell near the end and got up
and heroically continued. McRae was spendld throughout. How lucky you Royal Balletgoers are to be able to get on the Underground and see these dancers
(I live in California and get to London once a year, sometimes at the right time, sometimes not.)