Unseen photos: Carla Fracci, Maya Plisetskaya and Natalia Bessmertnova

When the Bolshoi Ballet visited Milan in 1970, Italian ballerina Carla Fracci, with Teatro alla Scala's director Antonio Ghiringhelli, went to the airport to welcome the company.

Here she is, with her son Francesco Menegatti, together with Russian ballet stars Maya Plisetskaya and Natalia Bessmertnova, in two previously unpublished photos.

Carla Fracci greets Maya Plisetskaya while Antonio Ghiringhelli looks on:

Natalia Bessmertnova watches as Maya Plisetskaya holds Carla Fracci's baby Francesco:

Gramilano( Editor )

Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.