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The most famous dancer of her time: the Italian ballerina Carla Fracci was 84 years old
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Carla Fracci actually wanted to become a hairdresser: At first the daughter of an employee of the Milan tram did not like the work at the Scala ballet school in Milan.
At least that's how she liked to tell it in interviews.
Her rise to the largest prima ballerina in the world could not be stopped.
Carla Fracci has now died of cancer at the age of 84.
She began her training at the age of ten, and at 22 she became La Scala prima ballerina.
She made her debut in 1958 in the title role of "Romeo and Juliet".
Contemporary reviews celebrated their sophisticated technology and great charisma.
The sixties, seventies, and early eighties were her big time.
Appearances in TV shows and ballet films
Fracci became world famous with romantic ballets such as "Swan Lake", "Les Sylphides" and above all with her star role in "Giselle".
She danced with famous partners such as Rudolf Nurejev and Vladimir Vasiliev.
She has performed with the Royal Ballet in London, the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm and the Stuttgart Ballet, among others.
It was important to Fracci to bring a non-dance-affine audience into contact with ballet.
She also appeared in television shows or in ballet films such as "Giselle".
Even after her career ended in the late 1980s, dance remained her life.
Fracci switched to staging and became the head of ballets in Naples and Verona.
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