Dance, from Bolle to Zakharova, homage to Carla Fracci at the Scala in Milan

From March 1st, tickets for the Fracci gala scheduled for April 9th ​​will open at La Scala in Milan. Long-awaited appointment, which the director of the Ball Manuel Legris wanted to establish as a tribute to the greatness of Carla Fracci to become a fixed appointment every season. The goal is to bring together and celebrate in the name of the divine, who passed away on May 27, the great stars of international dance with a repertoire of titles and interpretations that have made Carla Fracci famous and unforgettable in the world. On stage the whole corps de ballet with its first dancers and soloists and guests. Alessandra Ferri, alongside Carsten Jung, a leading dancer of the Hamburg Ballett for many years, brings to La Scala for the first time an excerpt from ‘L’heure exquise’ by Maurice Béjart, with which she celebrated her 40 career last June , which became, with the passing of Carla Fracci and Micha van Hoecke, a moving and dutiful tribute. The ethereal fragility and poignant elegance of the ‘Death of the Swan’ will be personified by Svetlana Zakharova, while in the Adagio della rosa from ‘Sleeping Beauty’ the audience will be able to applaud Marianela Nuñez, principal of the Royal Ballet, who will also dance together with Roberto Bolle the duo from ‘The Merry Widow’. Roberto Bolle will also have another exceptional partner, who for the first time performs at La Scala, in the two step from the first act of Onegin, Olga Smirnova, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater. The leading Scala artists will be involved in several two steps. Expected, among others, Virna Toppi and Mattia Semperboni, La Civiltà and Lo Schiavo in Excelsior, Emanuela Montanari and Nicola del Freo in the double step from Chéri, Vittoria Valerio and Claudio Coviello from the double step of the balcony from Romeo and Juliet, Martina Arduino and Marco Agostino in the two steps from La Péri, Antonella Albano and Massimo Garon will be Gelsomina and Il Matto in La strada. The solo Cachucha will be danced by Caterina Bianchi, while Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, together in theater and in life, will be the protagonists of the gran pas de deux from the third act of The Nutcracker, which will also see the dance troupe on stage in the famous waltz some flowers. Corps de ballet which will also be engaged in the second act of Giselle, with Alice Mariani in the role of Myrtha and Alessandra Vassallo with Agnese di Clemente (due willi), in the ensemble moment from La strada and in Symphony in C, a great example of the genre ‘ concertante ‘by George Balanchine, of which the fourth movement and the overwhelming finale will be presented, where the entire staff of the ballet and the main couples of each movement gather. Maria Celeste Losa with Nicola Del Freo, Martina Arduino with Timofej Andrijashenko, Nicoletta Manni with Marco Agostino, Virna Toppi with Claudio Coviello.