Nicoletta Manni
Nicoletta Manni (born 1991) is an Italian ballet dancer. A member of the La Scala Theatre Ballet since 2009, she was promoted to prima ballerina in April 2014.[1]
Born in Galatina, in the province of Lecce in the south east of Italy, Manni began dancing as a small child, encouraged by her mother Anna De Matteis. When she was 12, she began training at the La Scala Theatre Ballet School, graduating in 2009. When she was 17, she joined the Berlin State Ballet but returned to La Scala four years later in 2013, performing as Myrta in Giselle and Odette/Odile in Swan Lake. She has also performed as a soloist in George Balanchine's Rubies.[1][2]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b "La Scala nomina Nicoletta Manni prima ballerina e Virna Toppi, Vittoria Valerio e Federico Fresi solisti" (in Italian). fb danzaeffebi. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ Dino Valente (18 October 2013). "Nicoletta Manni, galatinese di Santa Barbara, è prima ballerina al Teatro alla Scala di Milano" (in Italian). Galantina.it. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
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