![]() Fracci, who created the role, was a fragile and touching “bambina vecchia” (old girl) like actress Giulietta Masina was, while principal Antonella Albano, was more strong-willed in the duet chose for the Gala, danced with Soloist Massimo Garon as “il Matto” (the Mad).Īnother beloved Italian ballet danced through her career by Fracci was “Excelsior,” the famous XIX century’s “ballo grande italiano” (Italian great ballet), restaged in 1967, where she created the main role of “La Civiltà” (the Civilization). Photograph by Brescia e Amisano / Teatro alla ScalaĪs Menegatti says, the career of Carla Fracci circled round these three “G”: Giselle, Giulietta (Juliet) and Gelsomina, that is the main character of La Strada, a ballet by Mario Pistoni taken in 1966 from Fellini’s movie. Antonella Albano and Massimo Garon in “La Strada” by Mario Pistoni. La Scala's archive still preserves the original engraving reproducing Elssler in her Spanish costume with black and pink volants, completed by ebony castanets and little shoes, a set perfectly reproduced for the Gala and elegantly worn by our young soloist. With the same, enchanting costume taken from the pictures of Fracci, the pas de deux was danced at the Gala by principals Martina Arduino and Marco Agostino, both succeeding in rendering the serene lightness of the early Romantic style.Īlso excellent was the rising soloist Caterina Bianchi, beautiful and “pagan” as Fanny Elssler was in her pièce de résistance: the “taquetée” solo that Carla Fracci loved and danced in the mythical movie Le Ballerine, directed by her husband. “La Péri,” an ideal role for our ballerina for its romantic exoticism, was danced in 1972 at La Scala and later at La Fenice theatre in Venice. Chosen among the up-and-coming soloists of the company to dance in the “Rose Adagio,” Agnese Di Clemente is that kind of “petite ballerina” right for Aurora’s role, already confident in the hard passages, and who still has to find her own style.Ĭaterina Bianchi in “Le Péri.” Photograph by Brescia e Amisano / Teatro alla Scala In the Gala, after a classicist “Flowers Waltz” with clarity performed by the corps de ballet, Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, La Scala’s beautiful pair of principals, danced the Grand pas deux in perfect Nureyev style, with elegant majesty.Īfter her 1966 debut at La Scala as Aurora in Nureyev’s production, Fracci never considered “The Sleeping Beauty” as her favorite ballet, although reviews and videos show her authoritative technique and enchanting in style. ![]() to create a personalized profile of the user starting from the pages the same has visited and then show and/or send targeted advertising (so-called Behavioural Advertising).La Scala Ballet in excerpt from “Giselle.” Photograph by Brescia e Amisano / Teatro alla ScalaĪmong Fracci’s classic repertoire, “The Nutcracker” and “The Sleeping Beauty” were linked to Rudolf Nureyev’s staging and partnership at La Scala.Īs she wrote in her memory book, Fracci debuted in Nureyev’s “Nutcracker” in 1971, a few months after giving birth to her son, preparing the role in just a handful of days: an anecdotal episode told also in a recent Italian movie. This allows the sites that use them to keep track of the user's navigation within the site itself, for statistical or advertising purposes, i.e. In other cases, the website displayed uses cookies to facilitate and facilitate navigation by the user or to allow the user to take advantage of specifically requested services.Ĭookies may remain in the system for long periods of time and may also contain a unique identification code. Some operations could not be carried out without the use of cookies, which are therefore technically necessary in some cases. Cookies are sent by a web server (which is the computer running the website visited) to the user's browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.) and stored on the user's computer they are then sent back to the website on subsequent visits. A "cookie" is a small text file created by some websites on the user's computer when the user accesses a particular site, for the purpose of storing and transporting information.
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