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Eleonora Abbagnato and Alessio Carbone from Paris, Silvia Azzoni from Hamburg, Roberto Bolle from Reggio Calabria (where he had performed in his Bolle & Friends show the evening before), Federico Bonelli and Ambra Vallo from Great Britain, Carla Fracci from Rome, Alessandro Riga from Dresden and Luciana Savignano from Milan. They were joined by Alicia Amatriain, Vladimir Derevianko, the Matvienkos, Simona Noja, Benjamin Pech, Alexandre Riabko, Irena Veterova, a couple from the Swedish Royal Ballet and a couple from the Het Nationale Ballet. No wonder that the gala was a marathon, with classic pdds from “Corsaire”, “Swan Lake”, “Don Quixote”, amusing roles like “Les bourgeois” and “Grand pas de deux”, French creations like Petit’s “L’Arlesienne” and Béjart’s “Arepo”, an American choreography by the European Balanchine (Ciaikovsky pdd) and the European choreography by the Americans Forsythe (In the middle somewhat elevated) and Neumeier (La Dame aux camelias).

It’s very difficult to point out the highlights. The ultimate fouettés? Those performed by Alicia Amatriain in Spuck’s “Grand Pas de deux”. The most dramatically charged interpretations? Those of Silvia Azzoni and Alexandre Riabko in Neumeier’s “La Dame aux camelias” and Eleonora Abbagnato and Benjamin Pech in Petit’s “L’Arlesienne”. The most surprising rendering? That of the Firebird by Uwe Scholz danced by a perfect Vladimir Derevianko. The King of the evening? Of course Roberto Bolle, energetic, powerful, dazzling in one of his signature roles: “In the middle somewhat elevated”. The Queen of the evening? Of course Carla Fracci, 70 but evergreen in her intense homage to Isadora Duncan, created 16 years ago.

The audience greeted each performance with thunderous applause and the evening ended with a standing ovation.