Roland Petit rehearsing Carla Fracci and Massimo Murru in Chéri
Gramilano has talked about Roland Petit’s charming and evocative ballet Chéri before, here and here.
This is what Carla Fracci said after Petit’s death in 2011:
I talked to him for the last time at Christmas. His great regret was that we were unable to film his ballet Chéri for French television, but there were a series of difficulties, even when a French TV crew came to film at La Scala. ‘A shame!’ Roland always said when we spoke. However Chéri is a ballet that will remain, with other ballerinas. He was keen that some sort of record would preserve it.
Well, here is a record of the original protagonists of the ballet — Carla Fracci and Massimo Murru — in the two pas de deux during a gala in Tokyo in 2000.… [continue reading]
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