Carla Fracci, Cannito: “When he told me there’s nothing he can’t do but dance”

“Carla Fracci loved her audience, she was happy for the affection and immense gratitude that people had always shown her for her art. One day I told her why aren’t you an actress? She simply replied: ‘ ‘it’s nothing I can’t do but dance’ “. It is the memory of the director and Luciano Cannito of Carla Fracci. “Carla Fracci has always been a true friend for me – she adds – Profoundly Italian, profoundly ‘patriot’, she had received job offers from all over the world to direct the ballet corps. But she loved Italy, especially her Milan . He never thought of leaving his country. He will remain a myth, an Italian myth “. “We met when I was directing the corps de ballet of the San Carlo Theater in Naples – he adds – I dedicated some of my creations to Carla Fracci, from ‘Girotondo Romano’ to ‘Donna Franca Florio’. She was a wonderful woman in love with her husband, the director Beppe Menegatti. One day she was offered the direction of a company without her husband. A few words from him, ‘I’m a couple’, he said. An act of love and generosity “.