Giacomo frassica e alessandra ferri biography

Italian prima ballerina

Alessandra FerriOMRI (born 6 May 1963) is an Italian prima ballerina. She danced with the Royal Ballet (1980–1984), American Ballet Theatre (1985–2007) and La Scala Theatre Ballet (1992–2007) and as an international guest artist, before temporally retiring on 10 August 2007, aged 44, then returning in 2013.

She was eventually granted the rank of prima ballerina assoluta.^[1]

Career

Alessandra Ferri was born in Milan, Italy. She began studying ballet at the La Scala Theatre Ballet School,^[2] later transferring to the upper school of the Royal Ballet School.

She represented the Royal Ballet School in the 1980 Prix de Lausanne, winning a scholarship which enabled her to continue studying at the school.^[3]

Royal Ballet

Ferri joined the Royal Ballet in 1980, and in 1982, for her first major role in the ballet Mayerling,^[4] she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding First