Together they built a family founded on love and respect and he was close to her until his death on May 27, 2021. We are talking about the famous dancer Carla Fracci and her husband Beppe Menegatti, together since 1964. He too in the world of show, is an established theater director.
Who is Beppe Menegatti: life
Born in Giuseppe Menegatti, Beppe Menegatti was born in Florence on 6 September 1929. After his studies atSilvio D’Amico National Academy in Rome, in the mid-1950s he began his career as assistant director for the great Luchino Visconti, working with important personalities such as Eduardo De Filippo and Vittorio De Sica. In his career he has curated many operas, ballets and theatrical plays such as, in 1964, the Italian premiere of the show Play by Samuel Beckett and that of Maria by Isac Babel.
He was also involved in the direction of many shows for his wife Carla Fracci, prima ballerina of the Teatro alla Scala. Lately it seems that Menegatti is ill but there is not much information on both his illness and the one that crushed Fracci, the couple were very reserved.
Who is Beppe Menegatti: love with Carla Fracci
Carla Fracci began studying dance in 1946 at the Piermarini dance school, with Vera Volkova and other choreographers, to graduate in 1954.
After two years she became a solo dancer and, in 1958, she became a prima ballerina. It was in those years that she met her husband, Beppe Menegatti. Charismatic man, talented and profound connoisseur of theatrical mechanisms, so much so that he took care of directing for the great theaters and dramas of famous heroines who found in Carla Fracci the ideal protagonist on the stage. The two they meet in the Scala rehearsal room and, when he meets Fracci, Menegatti was already involved in shows at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and in a collaboration with Visconti.
Menegatti and Fracci si marry very soon after, in 1964 and, in 1969, theirs was born only son Francesco. The couple in private life was very discreet, they lived in Milan and took refuge in the Tuscan countryside as soon as they could, but did not disdain public appearances in post-theater events in their city and in the major European capitals. In the last 60 years they have cultivated friendships such as those with Maria Callas and Aristotele Onassis, with Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masini, with the masters Riccardo Muti and Leonard Bernstein, and, in more recent years, with Andrea Bocelli and Roberto Bolle. Between Menegatti and Fracci it would not have been really love at first sight, but a lasting and sincere love that led Carla Fracci to admit that after 54 years of marriage they were: “still in love like the first day”.
Who is Beppe Menegatti: 4 curiosities
- When he met Carla Fracci he was engaged …
- The secret of such a lasting union with the wife he revealed it himself on tv a Today is another day: “It worked because we always questioned ourselves“.
- It has two nephews, Giovanni and Ariele, to whom he and his wife have always been very close.
- Much has been said jealous of the intelligence of his wife Carla Fracci.