Italian ballet dancer Carla Fracci poses as she attends the presentation of the ‘Stradivari Festival’ in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Carla Fracci has died Thursday, May 27, 2021 at her home in Milan, Italy, La Scala opera house announced Thursday.
Italian ballet star Carla Fracci and Rudolf Nureyev are congratulated by Italian President Sandro Pertini after their performance in “Giselle” at the Rome Opera House, Feb. 7, 1980. Carla Fracci, an Italian cultural icon and former La Scala prima ballerina who formed a memorable partnership with Rudolf Nureyev, has died at her home in Milan. She was 84. The La Scala theater announced her death Thursday with “great sadness,” without giving a cause.
Italian ballet dancer Carla Fracci poses as she attends the presentation of the ‘Stradivari Festival’ in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Carla Fracci, an Italian cultural icon and former La Scala prima ballerina who formed a memorable partnership with Rudolf Nureyev, has died at her home in Milan. She was 84. The La Scala theater announced her death Thursday with “great sadness,” without giving a cause.
FILE – In this Thursday Dec. 13, 2007 file photo, Carla Fracci waves as she arrives at a ceremony where American actors George Clooney and Don Cheadle received a peace award, at a summit of Nobel Peace Prize winners, in Rome. Carla Fracci, an Italian cultural icon and former La Scala prima ballerina who formed a memorable partnership with Rudolf Nureyev, has died at her home in Milan. She was 84. The La Scala theater announced her death Thursday with “great sadness,” without giving a cause. Italian news reports said she had been fighting cancer.
Italian ballet dancer Carla Fracci poses as she attends the presentation of the ‘Stradivari Festival’ in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Carla Fracci, an Italian cultural icon and former La Scala prima ballerina who formed a memorable partnership with Rudolf Nureyev, has died at her home in Milan. She was 84. The La Scala theater announced her death Thursday with “great sadness,” without giving a cause.
MILAN (AP) — Carla Fracci, an Italian cultural icon and former La Scala prima ballerina renowned for romantic roles alongside such greats as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov, died Thursday at her home in Milan. She was 84.
Milan’s Teatro alla Scala announced her death without giving a cause. Italian news reports said she had been fighting cancer.
The Milan theater recalled the “fairytale rise” of the daughter of a tram driver who. It said that through “talent, obstinance and work (she) became the most famous ballerina in the world” and inspired generations of young people.
“Carla Fracci was a cardinal figure in the history of dance and that of La Scala, but also a point of reference for the city of Milan and Italian culture,” the theater said in a statement.
“She leaves us in amazement, on tiptoe like Giselle, a spirit that remains with us, filling the ballrooms, the stage and our hearts,″ said La Scala’s ballet director, Manuel Legris. “We feel a great void that, at the same time, makes us feel full and rich in all her history — which is the history of ballet — and privileged to have shared her art.”
Fracci was born in Milan on Aug. 20, 1936, and spent World War II with relatives in the countryside to escape the frequent bombardment of the industrialized Lombardy capital. In a recent interview with Sky TG24, Fracci described her younger self as a “farmer,” who knew nothing of the theater or the world of dance “much less those little shoes.”
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