Valentino Zucchetti by Andre Uspensky
Italian dancer Valentino Zucchetti is one of a large number of Italian dancers who go abroad to find work and realise their dreams.
Italy has few ballet companies, and La Scala is the only one with an international profile, the others — Rome, Palermo, San Carlo — have few permanent dancers, drafting in extras to do repertoire pieces. Italian dancers are virtually forced to leave home and find fortune elsewhere: Federico Bonelli at The Royal Ballet, Ambra Vallo at Birmingham Royal Ballet, Vito Mazzeo at San Francisco and now with the Dutch National Ballet, Eleonora Abbagnato and Alessio Carbone in Paris, Silvia Azzoni in Hamburg, Claudio Cangialosi in Dresden, and then there’s Mara Galeazzi, Alen Bottaini and many others who have now left the stage.… [continue reading]
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