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Illustrated look at La Scala’s visit to Australia with Don Quixote and Giselle
After almost a month touring China, La Scala’s ballet company popped back to Milan for a run of Manon performances, before popping off to Australia for thirteen performances in Brisbane, from 7 to 18...
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Carla Fracci and the Women’s National Volleyball Team
Carla Fracci, Rosita Missoni (founder, with her husband, of the Missoni fashion house in the 1950s), Marco Tronchetti Provera (Chief Executive of Pirelli), Javier Zanetti (the footballer) and Italy’s...
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Roberto Fascilla, former étoile at La Scala, dies at 82
Roberto Fascilla died yesterday morning, 23 January 2019, in Milan after a long illness. He entered the corps de ballet at Teatro alla Scala, before finishing its school, when he was just 13, and...
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Antipasto to the annual Les Étoiles gala in Rome with Russian and Italian...
As an antipasto to the annual Les Étoiles gala in Rome — this year a sold out two days, next year there will be three — in the luxurious setting of the Hotel de Russie near the Spanish Steps, there was...
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Ballerina Jacquelin De Min dies at the age of 76
Ballerina Jacquelin De Min has died at the age of 76 at her home in Cannes after a long illness. She began dancing with the ballet company at the Opera House in Strasbourg when she was 16, and soon...
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Interview with Alessandra Ferri: Maturing I find myself smiling more
I’m enjoying a new chapter in my life having the fortune to play women of my age and not romantic roles like the Giselles, Carmens, Juliets, Manons… all wonderful, but enough, they’re part of another...
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Video: Carla Fracci and Roberto Bolle dance Le Spectre de la rose, 1998
Shortly before Carla Fracci’s 62nd birthday, she and 23-year-old Roberto Bolle went to Toyko for the 14th Toyko Summer Music Festival dedicated to Diaghilev and 20th Century Ballet. The young star had...
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Marianela Nuñez and Roberto Bolle lead a top-notch cast in Onegin at La Scala
John Cranko’s ballet Onegin was brought to La Scala in 1993 as a vehicle for Carla Fracci with Rex Harrington in the title role. It wasn’t, however, Fracci’s first contact with the ballet. Her close...
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Erik Bruhn and Carla Fracci – Romeo and Juliet, 1966
Erik Bruhn choreographed a version of Romeo and Juliet which he and Carla Fracci danced with the Rome Opera Ballet in 1966. The balcony scene is now on YouTube.
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[VIDEO] Pas de Quatre with Carla Fracci, Margrethe Schanne, Josette Amiel,...
The ballet divertissement Pas de Quatre was choreographed by Jules Perrot in 1845 to music composed by Cesare Pugni, commissioned by Her Majesty’s Theatre in London. It was first seen on 12 July 1845...
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[VIDEO] Massenet’s La Cigale with Carla Fracci and Paul Chalmer
A short compilation of clips from the first act of the little known ballet by Jules Massenet: La Cigale. The video was recorded in the Teatro Comunale in Treviso in 1988 and features Carla Fracci and...
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Google Arts & Culture puts thousands of images and documents from La Scala’s...
Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative with the tech giant working alongside cultural institutions and artists around the world to bring some of the world’s art and culture online so that...
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American Ballet Theatre: Together Tonight – an 80th Anniversary YouTube...
May 2020 was to have been a special month for the American Ballet Theatre – the time to celebrate its 80th anniversary. American Ballet Theatre – known as Ballet Theatre from 1939 until 1957 – was...
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[Review] Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus with striking Capucci...
Italian producer Daniele Cipriani seems to be resuscitating dance in Italy almost singlehandedly. The first main dance event in the country was conceived by him and presented in mid-July to open the...
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Nureyev on staging the “ballet of ballets” The Sleeping Beauty
Rudolf Nureyev first staged Sleeping Beauty at La Scala in Milan and on 22 September 1966 the curtain went up on La Bella addormentata nel bosco with sets and costumes by Nicholas Georgiadis. Nureyev...
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Carla Fracci and Manuel Legris’ Giselle masterclass from La Scala online
La Scala will stream a new recording of Giselle on 30 January. Carla Fracci will join Manuel Legris in working with the company dancers.
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Online: Carla Fracci gives two Giselle masterclasses from La Scala
Carla Fracci works with La Scala's dancers on Thursday 28 January and Friday 29 January in streaming.
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Giselle: free streamed performance from La Scala with two casts
Giselle from La Scala on 30 January, at 20.00 CET and available for two days. It's offered to viewers worldwide via the state television's RaiPlay
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Filming starts on “Carla”, a biopic of the young Carla Fracci
Shooting has begun on the film for television, Carla, a biopic on the early life of Carla Fracci.
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Tribute to Nureyev – free ballet gala streaming from La Scala
A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev from La Scala in Milan can be seen on Sunday 28 February at 20.00 CET
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