The most important contemporary Italian classical dancer, Carla Fracci, unique with an undisputed category of “absolute prima ballerina”, passed away at 84 years in Milan, your natal city.

As reported by local media, Fracci passed away after a battle with cancer.

Fracci stayed active while she had the strength and until very recently, when the Frenchman Manuel Legris, artistic director of the ballet of the Teatro alla Scala, invited her to give master classes to his dancers on his most stylized romantic role: “Giselle”, with choreography by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli.

Before, in 2014, in the Plaza Antigua of the Cathedral of the commune of Oria, She had embodied the dramatic character of Artemisia Gentileschi in a long experimental ballet in which she demonstrated not only that she was in splendid physical shape but also her willingness to accept committed new challenges..

She was always proud of her humble origins, as the daughter of a streetcar conductor who loved music: Carla and her sister had every facility to study ballet and music in the harsh times after World War II.

He graduated in 1954 at the School of the Teatro alla Scala, when he incarnated the Lady of “The spectrum of the rose”, by Michel Fokine, Y, being just a soloist in line, in 1956, replaced Violette Verdy in “Cinderella”, and the following summer she was chosen to participate in the Nervi Festival, with consecrated divas like Alicia Markova.

The New York Times critic Clive Barnes dubbed her “The Eleonora Duse of dance” Y, when the Italian director Renato Castellani filmed the life of Giuseppe Verdi for television, called Carla for the role of Giuseppina Strepponi.

While the American Hebert Ross decided that he would be his star in the film “Nijinski” (1980).

Few of the great dancers of the twentieth century like her had so many important occasional partners.: Erik Bruhn, Rudolf Nureyev, Vladimir Vasiliev, Mario Pistoni, Mijaíl barishnikov, Jorge Esquivel, Gheorghe Iancu, Paolo Bortoluzzi, Paul Chalmer and Spanish Antonio Gades, among others. (TELAM)