DANCER

Carla Fracci

1936 - 2021

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Carolina "Carla" Fracci (Italian: [ˈkarla ˈfrattʃi]; 20 August 1936 – 27 May 2021) was an Italian prima ballerina, actress and ballet director. Considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, she was a leading dancer of La Scala Theatre Ballet in Milan, then worked freelance with international companies including the Royal Ballet, London, Stuttgart Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Fracci is known for her interpretation of leading characters in several Romantic ballets, such as La Sylphide, Giselle, Swan Lake, and Romeo and Juliet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carla Fracci has received more than 231,456 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Carla Fracci is the 55th most popular dancer (down from 44th in 2019), the 2,892nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,399th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Dancer.

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  • 230k

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  • 52.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Carla Fracci ranks 55 out of 116. Before her are Louise Rasmussen, Antonio Gades, Enrico Cecchetti, Kurt Jooss, Merce Cunningham, and Hilde Holger. After her are William Forsythe, Lucile Grahn, Alvin Ailey, Micheline Bernardini, John Cranko, and Ninette de Valois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Carla Fracci ranks 249. Before her are Lino Banfi, Birthe Wilke, Aribert Reimann, Frank Serpico, Stanislav Govorukhin, and Toralf Engan. After her are W. D. Hamilton, Edvard Radzinsky, Paul Shenar, Saburō Kawabuchi, Walter Lewin, and Ante Žanetić. Among people deceased in 2021, Carla Fracci ranks 243. Before her are Pachín, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Nino Vaccarella, Roberto Calasso, Yitzhak Arad, and Yvon Douis. After her are Ivan Patzaichin, Helmut Jahn, Gunilla Bergström, Edmund Gettier, Yukhym Zvyahilsky, and Henri Schwery.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carla Fracci ranks 2,892 out of 5,161. Before her are Francesca Bertini (1892), Lucrezia d'Este (1535), Andrea de Adamich (1941), Melus of Bari (1000), Publius Sulpicius Rufus (-124), and Valentino Fioravanti (1764). After her are Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (1883), Maria Anna of Savoy, Duchess of Chablais (1757), Tullio Lombardo (1455), Massimo Ambrosini (1977), Annius of Viterbo (1437), and Andrea Carlo Ferrari (1850).

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Among DANCERS In Italy

Among dancers born in Italy, Carla Fracci ranks 6. Before her are Carlo Blasis (1797), Filippo Taglioni (1777), Gaétan Vestris (1729), Pierina Legnani (1863), and Enrico Cecchetti (1850).

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