Esmeralda Carla Fracci and Stephen Jeffries
ESMERALDA, 19071908, with Carla Fracci as Matilde Kschessinska and Stephen Jeffries as Nicolas Legat. In 1987 a twopart television programme called The Ballerinas featured Carla Fracci, with some of the top male dancers of the period, in a series of reconstructions putting various ballets and their interpretors in an historical context. Fracci was an amazingly youthful 51 when she danced these extracts.
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