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Over the last couple of weeks the has been a steady build up in Italian media to this day, the 80th birthday of Italy brightest ballet star, Carla Fracci. Seemingly endless articles have littered the pages of specialist magazines, gossip rags and newspapers and today’s television news has reported the event. People who know nothing about ballet know that today is Carla Fracci’s birthday.
This evening, the Rai state television has an evening of programming dedicated to the ‘Duse of dance’ on the cultural channel, Rai5, with a series of specials on the history of dance that she did with Peter Ustinov in the 1980s, followed by two recent profiles, one on her and the other on Roberto Bolle, and then they will transmit the 1967 ballet La strada created for her by Mario Pistoni at La Scala and based on Federico Fellini’s film.
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