- Stage director.
- Beppe Menegatti was an Italian theatre director.
- He directed operas, ballets and plays by important authors, including, in 1964, the Italian premiere of Samuel Beckett's Play and that of Isaac Babel's Maria.
- He collaborated during his career with Eduardo De Filippo and Vittorio De Sica.
- Menegatti directed many of the shows of his wife, ballerina Carla Fracci, whom he married in 1964.
- In the mid-1950s he was called by Luchino Visconti as assistant director.
- Menegatti attended performances at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a young boy.
- The Silvio D'Amico National Academy in Rome awarded him a scholarship.
- He was host and mentor: Carla Fracci (1936-2021), considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century and crowned by the 'New York Times' as "prima ballerina assoluta". In the belief that he should not lose sight of narrative ballet, in those years Menegatti constructed (with the help of several choreographers) fragments of ballets that were thought to have disappeared, tracked down rare and precious musical scores with the spirit of an archaeologist, consulted old books as sources of historical glimpses and atmospheres that he then collected into real dance-step scripts with prose interventions.
- In 2021, he was a consultant for the biopic on his wife Carla Fracci, directed by Emanuele Imbucci and freely inspired by the autobiography 'Passo dopo passo' edited by Enrico Rotelli.
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