Carla Fracci and Roberto Bolle dance Le Spectre de la rose, 1998

Carla Fracci (61) and 23-year-old Roberto Bolle danced at the Toyko Summer Music Festival dedicated to Diaghilev and 20th Century Ballet. Here are two performances on 9 and 10 July 1998 of Le Spectre de la rose. On Bolle’s 40th birthday, Fracci said: “I have been very fond of Roberto Bolle for many years… twenty? twenty-five? We’ve danced various ballets together and, several years ago, at the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo, we danced a ballet that is emblematic for me, Le Spectre de la rose, which I performed for my diploma on leaving La Scala’s Ballet School. It was in March 1955 after a performance of La sonnambula with Maria Callas when I danced it with the great Mario Pistoni. Forty-three years later, in 1998, I danced it with Roberto.“