[2][3] He attended performances of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a young boy; he remembered that he received a ticket for Verdi's Rigoletto for his tenth birthday, in a performance with the young Giulietta Simionato as Maddalena.

[1] The Silvio D'Amico National Academy in Rome awarded him a scholarship.

[6] He directed operas, ballets and plays by important authors, including, in 1964, the Italian premieres of Samuel Beckett's All That Fall[2] and Play and that of Isaac Babel's Maria,[5][4] with actors including Paola Borboni, Lydia Alfonsi and Virginio Gazzolo [it].

[2] Menegatti authored productions that combined dance, spoken language and song.

[1] He directed for television, such as The Ballerinas, a ballet-drama in two parts in which Peter Ustinov and Fracci played roles in scenes from the history of ballet.