(by Paolo Petroni)
(ANSA) - Rome, May 4 - The Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival
of the Two Worlds) in Spoleto will this year run from June 24
until July 11.
In presenting this year's edition in the presence of
Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, festival director Giorgio
Ferrara noted that the number of those attending had risen from
5,000 in 2007 to 70,000 in 2015 but that the quality of the
festival was what was most important.
The festival will start with Le Nozze di Figaro and will
end with Antonio Pappano with the Santa Cecilia orchestra,
soloist Stefano Bollani and a program ranging from Schonberg to
Lehar and Gershwin.
Franceschini underscored the quality of the festival and
its international line-up, and heralded it as a sign of the
direction Italy was moving in terms of culture.
Robert Wilson, Tim Robbins, Eimuntas Nekrosius and Jeff
Mills will all be present, alongside the Russian theater
Vakhtangov, the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company and the Czech
Republic's national ballet corps.
Among the Italians will be the dancer Eleonora Abbagnato,
Adriano Guarnieri, Liliana Cavani, Mario Martone, Patrizia
Cavalli, Alba Rohrwacher, Emma Dante, Romeo Castellucci and a
text by Camilleri, directed by Di Pasquale and with Moni Ovadia
as protagonist and a translation by Enzo Siciliano of Euripides'
Cyclops with Francesco Siciliano as director and actor.
There will also be several talks held and awards given out
including one from the Italian copyright collecting agency SIAE
and the Cultural Heritage Rescue Prize for those who have fought
for culture in the world.
Spoleto Festival to offer wide range of performances
24/6 to 11/7, visitors rose from 5,000 in 2007 to 70,000 in 2015