By Silvia Poletti On April 9, at the end of the first edition of Gala Fracci — Teatro alla Scala’s celebration of the late Carla Fracci, intended to become an annual affair — the theatre’s red curtains closed on the dancers applauding the ballerina’s image projected onto the backdrop. With that moving conclusion to the
By Silvia Poletti Wayne McGregor’s full-evening Woolf Works, created for the Royal Ballet in 2015, arrived last April to La Scala’s stage thanks to Alessandra Ferri, whom McGregor cast as the lead in the original production. On that occasion, Ferri returned to the stage after a leave of more than seven years and, at 52,