(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 30 - A musical-cum-opera on late showbiz icon Raffaella Carrà debuted in Bergamo on Friday night, bringing the house down.
    The work, Raffa in the Sky, spans musical genres from Carrà's sexy hit Tuca tuca to Swan Lake to another iconic hit, Furore, in a mise-en-scene halfway between science fiction and baroque opera.
    The TV icon and entertainment legend Raffaella Carrà died on July, 2021 at the age of 78.
    The singer, actress, dancer and TV host, who starred with Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express in 1965 and found cult TV success in Spain and other countries, becoming a gay icon, had been ill for some time.
    Carrà is also credited with boosting the sexual revolution in Catholic Italy with cheeky songs celebrating touching (Tuca tuca, 1971) and getting women to take the initiative in lovemaking (A fare l'amore comincia tu, 1976), and was slammed by the Vatican for showing her belly button on live TV in 1970.
    The new musical celebrates her glittering career. (ANSA).