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Unseen photos: Carla Fracci, Maya Plisetskaya and Natalia Bessmertnova
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...
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Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition: Vito Mazzeo
Born in Vibo Valentia, Italy, Vito Mazzeo trained at La Scala Ballet School in Milan. He danced with The Royal Ballet and Rome Opera Ballet before joining San Francisco Ballet as a soloist in 2010....
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Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition: Mara Galeazzi
Mara Galeazzi was born in Brescia and studied at La Scala, Milan. She joined The Royal Ballet in 1992 and was promoted to First Artist in 1995, Soloist at the end of the 1997/98 Season and Principal...
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Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition: Giuseppe Picone
Giuseppe Picone trained at the Ballet School of Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at twelve years old was chosen by Beppe Menegatti to dance the role of the young Nijinsky in the World Premiere of the...
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Carla Fracci, Riccardo Muti, and the destruction of ballet in Italy
For almost two years — that is, since the departure of Carla Fracci as a director - the Ballet of the Rome Opera seems to have fallen prey to evil spirits, or at least incompetent ones, who have...
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Zakharova and Fracci hit back at La Scala dancer’s anorexia claims: “she’s an...
The anorexia scandal, started by Teatro alla Scala ballerina Mariafrancesca Garritano, which has had echoes worldwide, at first led to indignation by the public and fellow dancers alike when the...
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Carla Fracci and Bocelli’s agent Caterina Caselli in a bizarre collection of...
In 1978, with Carla Fracci at the height of her fame, a book was produced with a collection of photographs by Dino Jarach. Fracci in the piazza, Fracci on stage, Fracci in the studio, Fracci on the...
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Two Divas together: Meryl Streep and Carla Fracci… what’s so funny?
This great snap, from a reception at the Rome Film Festival in 2009, shows the two leading-ladies cracking up with laughter. Any ideas what somebody might have said or done? Suggestions please… this...
View ArticleCarla Fracci with Schaufuss, Vasiliev, Cragun, Jude and others on YouTube
In 1987 a two-part television programme called The Ballerinas featured Carla Fracci, with some of the top male dancers of the period, in a series of reconstructions putting various ballets and their...
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Unseen photos: Carla Fracci and Rudolf Nureyev at La Scala in the 1970s
An unpublished photograph of Carla Fracci and Rudolf Nureyev in Giselle at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala in 1974… continue reading
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The dance drain: who will save ballet in Italy?
Italians are great dancers, but they don’t get much opportunity to demonstrate that in their homeland. The history of ballet is adorned with Italian talent: Giuseppina Bozzacchi was the first Swanhilda...
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Fun and games with Carla Fracci, Genesia Rosato and George de la Peña
Jeux (Games) is the last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy. It was composed for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography. Jeux was was not a success when...
View ArticleCarla Fracci salutes her partner and friend Richard Cragun
Carla Fracci, frequent partner of the American ballet star Richard Cragun, who died yesterday at 67, remembers the dancer with the words of English poet W H Auden: Dear Richard, I honour your passing...
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A new ballet company for Italy? Rome’s mayor announces a project for the...
The Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, has announced, We are working on a project with Carla Fracci to create a National Ballet Company which can bring the Rome experience to a national level. The ‘Rome...
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Unseen photos: one month after the death of Richard Cragun we publish photos...
In 1974 at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala the 37-year-old Carla Fracci danced a series of 20 performances of John Field’s Swan Lake with three different partners: Rudolf Nureyev, Roberto Fascilla and...
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The whiff of celebrity: Carla Fracci launches her new perfume, Aurora
David Beckham has his underwear collection, singer Jessica Simpson has a wildly popular fashion label, and Italian ballerina Carla Fracci has her perfume collection. Yesterday, in Milan’s chic 10 Corso...
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Two Italian living legends together: Ferruccio Soleri, the greatest...
Ferruccio Soleri (class of 1929) was the original Arlecchino in Giorgio Strehler’s legendary production of Goldoni’s masterpiece Servant of Two Masters (Arlecchino servitore di due padroni) for Milan’s...
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“Meeting with Carla Fracci” at the Italian Cultural Institute in London’s...
Carla Fracci will appear at London’s Italian Cultural Institute in London on October 3. The ICI is the official Italian governmental body dedicated to promoting Italian language and culture in England...
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Beppe Menegatti answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Directors’ Edition
Q&A When did you first go to the theatre? To see Rigoletto at the Teatro Comunale in Florence on 10 October 1939 for my tenth birthday, with Gino Bechi, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Lina Aimaro and the...
View ArticleCarla Fracci at the La Scala Theatre Ballet School celebrations
The La Scala Theatre Ballet School was formed 200 years ago, and its students are celebrating with a week of shows at Milan’s Teatro Strehler. At last night’s opening performance Carla Fracci, maybe...
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