Festival dei Due Mondi




Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Spoleto



For the Spoleto Festival USA, see Spoleto Festival USA and for the Spoleto Festival Melbourne see Melbourne International Arts Festival.

The Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy, since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958. It features a vast array of concerts, opera, dance, drama, visual arts and roundtable discussions on science.


The "Two Worlds" in the name of the festival comes from Gian Carlo Menotti's intention to have the worlds of American and European culture facing each other in his event; this concept would then be strengthened by the fact that it was held in conjunction with its "twin", the Spoleto Festival USA held annually in May/June in Charleston, South Carolina. That twinning lasted some 15 years and, after growing disputes between the Menotti family and the board of Spoleto Festival USA, in the early 1990s a separation occurred. Under Menotti's direction in 1986, a third installment in the Spoleto Festival series was held in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne's Spoleto Festival changed its name to the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts in 1990.


Following Menotti's death in 2007, changes occurred in the administration with the result that the Italian Minister of Cultural Affairs appointed a new Artistic Administrator who continues to run the Festival.




Contents





  • 1 The Italian Festival's location and activities


  • 2 Changes in administration


  • 3 Prominent artists who have been involved


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links




The Italian Festival's location and activities


Because Spoleto was a small town, where real estate and other goods and services were at the time relatively inexpensive, and also because there are two indoor theatres, a Roman theatre, and many other spaces, it was chosen by Menotti as the venue for an arts festival. It is also fairly close to Rome, with good rail connections.[citation needed]



Changes in administration


Following Menotti's death in February 2007, the city administrations of Spoleto and Charleston started talks to re-unite the two festivals, which resulted in the Mayor of Spoleto, Massimo Brunini, attending the opening ceremony of Spoleto Festival USA in May 2008.


However, at the time of the 2007 Festival, the President and Artistic Director was Menotti's adopted son, Francis "Chip" Menotti and, in the fall of 2007, the Italian Minister of Cultural Affairs, Francesco Rutelli—after unsuccessful negotiations with Menotti—removed him from his position[1] and named Giorgio Ferrara new artistic director of the festival. This has resulted in continuing controversy between representatives of the "old" and "new" managements of the Festival, as exemplified by the maintenance of a website critical of the former management, which can be seen below.



Prominent artists who have been involved



  • Luchino Visconti

  • Eduardo De Filippo

  • Rudolf Nureyev

  • Carla Fracci

  • Thomas Schippers

  • Romolo Valli

  • Ken Russell

  • Nino Rota

  • Roman Polanski

  • Ezra Pound

  • Vittorio Gassman

  • Arnoldo Foà

  • Luciano Pavarotti

  • Joaquin Cortes

  • Ralph Farris

  • Al Pacino



See also


  • List of opera festivals

  • Francis Menotti


References


Notes




  1. ^ Wakin, New York Times



Sources


  • Daniel Wakin, "Spoleto Italy: The Menottis Are History", 'The New York Times, June 27, 2008.


External links


  • Official website of the present Festival dei Due mondi

  • Pre-2008 Festival management's website


Coordinates: 42°44′09″N 12°44′07″E / 42.73578°N 12.73527°E / 42.73578; 12.73527 (Teatro Nuovo, base of the Festival dei Due Mondi)







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