When the Bolshoi Ballet visited Milan in 1970, Italian ballerina Carla Fracci, with Teatro alla Scala’s director Antonio Ghiringhelli, went to the airport to welcome the company.
Here she is, with her son Francesco Menegatti, together with Russian ballet stars Maya Plisetskaya and Natalia Bessmertnova, in two previously unpublished photos.
Carla Fracci greets Maya Plisetskaya while Antonio Ghiringhelli looks on:
Natalia Bessmertnova watches as Maya Plisetskaya holds Carla Fracci’s baby Francesco:
