Nicoletta Manni new star of La Scala. From the beginning to the proclamation on stage. PHOTO

Nicoletta Manni is the new Étoile of the Teatro alla Scala. The nomination was announced on stage by the Superintendent and Artistic Director Dominique Meyer together with the Scaligero Ball Director Manuel Legris at the end of the second performance of Onegin by John Cranko, in which Nicoletta Manni is the protagonist in the role of Tatiana alongside Onegin of the Étoile Roberto Bolle.

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Having joined the Scala Ballet in 2013, she has been Prima ballerina since 2014 and in recent years Manuel Legris has chosen her to support some of the most demanding roles in the classical and contemporary repertoire. “I thought that Onegin was the right time to see Nicoletta’s artistic side – said Manuel Legris to Sky Tg24 – It was the right time also because she danced it alongside Roberto Bolle, who is already an étoile”

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Born in the province of Lecce, at 13 she was admitted to the fourth course at the Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala Academy. In 2009, after graduating, she received a contract offer at the Berlin Staatsballett directed by Vladimir Malakhov, where she worked for three seasons, taking part in all classical and contemporary productions. In spring 2013 she joined the Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala and since April 2014 she has been Prima ballerina (in the photo by Brescia Amisano Nicoletta Manni she is the Sugar Plum Fairy in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker)

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He participates in productions and creations for the Company, and plays the main roles on site and during tours. In the photo she is the Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote

The love story between Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko

In 2012 she obtained third place at the Roma Danza Award, followed by the Danza&Danza Award as Interpreter for the 2014 season and was named Dancer of the Year 2014 by the online magazine newspaperdelladanza.com. She is the only Italian candidate for the 2015 Benois de la Danse Award, she performed at the Bolshoi Theater and in 2015 she was named “Promise” of dance by the German specialized magazine “Tanz”. In the photo a moment from the second act of Giselle

He danced as a guest at the Moscow Kremlin Ballet (Giselle), with Asami Maki Ballet of Tokyo (Notre Dame de Paris by Roland Petit), Lithuanian National Ballet of Vilnius (Don chisciotte), with the Bol’soi Ballet in Moscow (La Ballerina in Etudes by Harald Lander), at the Gala Dance Open Festival 2017 (St. Petersburg), Elisa y Amigos 2016 (Mexico), All Star Ballet Gala 2017 (Toronto), Yurgita Dronina Ballet world star gala 2015 (Vilnius). In the photo a moment of LORE, Wayne McGregor’s new creation for the Teatro alla Scala

At La Scala two premieres by Wayne McGregor

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And again: she danced in the Season Opening Gala 2016 (Bucharest), Iana Salenko and the stars of the 2017 ballet (Kiev), “La notte della taranta” in Melpignano, where she performed Yael Deckelbaum’s song ‘Prayer of the mothers’, choreographed by Luciano Cannito. Ballet Gala 2018 (Warsaw), Petipa Methamorphosis XXI century 2018 (St. Petersburg), Stars of the 21st century 2018 (St. Petersburg). In the photo a moment from The Barre Project by WIlliam Forsythe

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Since 2014 he has danced with Roberto Bolle in Roberto Bolle & Friends and in his television shows. In September 2020 he received the “dancer of the year on the international scene” award in the forty-eighth edition of “Positano rewards Léonide Massine dance”. In her photo, a moment of Carmen with the principal dancer of La Scala Timofej Andrijashenko, her husband.

Nicoletta Manni is no stranger to surprises on stage. In July 2022, at the end of the show Roberto Bolle & Friends, Timofej Andrijashenko asked her to marry him after having performed the famous pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet together. Tears, applause and emotion.

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One year after the romantic proposal at the Verona Arena, Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko got married in Puglia, in the bride’s homeland. Roberto Bolle was their best man at the wedding.

The story of the wedding

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Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko have been a couple in life and on stage for several years. Here in a moment of the pas de deux of the Black Swan taken from Swan Lake

Nicoletta Manni’s appointment had been in the air for some time. The right moment seemed to have arrived in Rudolf Nureyev’s Swan Lake which was staged in September when the then prima ballerina gave an excellent performance of one of the most difficult choreographies in the repertoire. Yet another excellent performance of these years.

“I waited because I thought that Onegin was the right time to see Nicoletta’s artistic side – the director of the Corps de Ballet Manuel Legris explained to Sky Tg24 – It was the right time also because she danced it alongside Roberto Bolle, who is already étoile”.

Nicoletta Manni, in addition to being the protagonist of Roberto Bolle’s television programs, was also the protagonist of the two blank lessons in Piazza Duomo of Ondance, the dance festival created by Bolle

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“Nothing can be said about Nicoletta’s technical abilities, we have all known them for some time. But in addition to those she also has a great ability to produce emotions” the superintendent of the Teatro alla Scala Dominique Meyer underlined to our microphones immediately after the appointment. In the photo Nicoletta Manni in The Lady of the Camellias

Among the meetings that most marked Nicoletta Manni’s career was the one with Carla Fracci who passed on her teachings to her in the role that made her most famous, Giselle, a few months before her death

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Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko in the second act of Giselle

Nicoletta approached dance as a child in an absolutely natural way. The mother has a dance school in Puglia and for her Nicoletta, as she also told in the book published by Garzanti which has just been released The joy of dancing, dance has always been part of her life. In the photo a moment of Manon

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Nicoletta started for fun and then realized very soon that she would choose dance in her life. Hence her decision to leave for Milan despite her very strong bond with her family and her homeland. In the photo the final pas de deux of The Nutcracker choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev

Among Nicoletta’s exceptional qualities are her grace and elegance. Among her memorable performances should be remembered Diamonds in Jewels, choreography by George Balanchine

In the photo Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko in Movements to Stravinsky

All the elegance of Nicoletta Manni in Paquita