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

Carla Fracci (61) and 23yearold 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 twentyfive Weve 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 Scalas 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. Fortythree years later, in 1998, I danced it with