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  Music & Festivals In France & Italy - The Sounds of Europe | Away.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Europe's classically focused festivals are bastions of tradition, with high standards and regal venues that spirit visitors back to the splendor of Europe's past.
In addition to its magnitude, the festival is notable for the quality and quantity of food available to hungry jazz-heads.
This festival in the beautiful hill town of Spoleto was founded by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1957, and has become one of Italy's most respected cultural events.
away.com /top_picks/euromusic_festivals1.html   (470 words)

  
 Spoleto Festival Umbria
The opening and closing symphonic concerts held in the enormous piazza in front of the Duomo are always sold-out events, and the experience of hearing the exquisite music performed in the fading twilight as swallows flutter around the facade and tower until the last light is unforgettable.
It is said that one of the reasons that Menotti chose Spoleto for the home of his festival was because in the mid-fifties it was the only town in Italy that would agree to closing the center to automotive traffic which helped to create an atmosphere congenial to the artists, visitors, and spectators.
There are always several art exhibits arranged by the Festival, in 2005 the young Greek artist Demetrios Psillos designed the colorful poster and exhibited his paintings in the Terazza Frau whose gardens overlook the tiled rooftops of Spoleto and the surrounding rolling green hills.
www.lifeinitaly.com /Tourism/umbria/spoleto-festival.asp   (975 words)

  
 Spoleto Festival 49th Edition "Music and Magic" - Festival dei Due Mondi 2006 _ Online Tickets
The Spoleto Festival is the extraordinary brainchild of my father Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti, who forty-seven years ago began calling together the brightest stars on the artistic and cultural scene to Spoleto.
From opera to symphonic and chamber music, from the visual to literary and cinematic arts, from dance to theatre the Festival unites the arts with the common language of contemporary relevance and intense emotional impact.
Come and see Magic and Music at the 49th edition of the original Festival at its creative best rather than the many copies that are offered to the public.
www.artacom.it /spoleto   (249 words)

  
 Coriolanus-Ralph Fiennes-Linus Roche-Vittorio Gassman-The Festival dei Due Mondi-Spoleto by Verinha Ottoni©
Last year Gassman was performing in "Camper" in the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Umbria and this year the Festival paid homage to him with one minute's silence at the opening of the Festival.
This Festival has great sentimentality for me as I had a gift shop for 10 years at the Festival, just while it was on.
Each year I rented a flat for the duration of the Festival in one of the medieval buildings that line the narrow main street of Spoleto, Via di Fontesecca.
www.verinhaottoni.com /diary/cultural/cinema/016.html   (1228 words)

  
 The Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Umbria and villa rentals located nearby
The cultural highlight of a summer in Spoleto is the annual Festival dei Due Mondi, or Festival of the Two Worlds, a full-up performing-arts celebration showcasing music, dance and theater.
Spoleto bedecked in Festival mode is likened to the “new Italian Salzburg.” The program offered has been headlined in recent years by everyone from Franco Zeffirelli to Ezra Pound.
The city tends to fill up and tickets can be expensive and hard to come by, so it pays to do the legwork early and secure entry in advance if you plan to be enjoying a Wimco villa in the area at the time.
www.wimco.com /events/evtumbriaspoletofest.asp   (298 words)

  
 SPOLETO - XLI FESTIVAL DEI DUE MONDI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Spoleto Festival - Italy's leading the international arts festival, "The Festival of Two Worlds", which is a World Wide attraction that involes music, dance and theatre scene.
Il Festival dei due Mondi si svolge tra la fine di Giugno - metà Luglio,è un'attrazione mondiale con le più alte espressioni di Danza Prosa e Lirica, senza scordare i grandi eventi concertistici che giornalmente si svolgono.
Da sempre il Festival è fucina di grandi artisti Teatrali, Direttori d'orchestra,Ballerini, Musicisti che ogni anno vengono scelti personalmente dal Maestro Menotti.
www.romeguide.it /SPOLETO/SPOLETO.html   (125 words)

  
 Delicious Italy - Spoleto Festival - Festival dei Due Mondi - Two Worlds festival in Spoleto Umbria Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Spoleto Festival is officially called the Festival dei Due Mondi or 'Two Worlds'.
On an international level, this festival is one of the most prestigious events of the year.
Tickets are on sale from the central ticket office in Piazza della Libertà from 10am to 11pm every day of the festival.
www.deliciousitaly.com /spoletofestival.htm   (202 words)

  
 Planters Inn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Spoleto Festival USA was founded in 1977 as the American counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy.
The festival quickly became an artistic home for a large group of artists, both traditional and experimental, who found the mix of dance, theatre, opera, music, and the visual arts to be both exciting and stimulating.
Spoleto Festival USA has maintained traditions of those first festivals and has earned a reputation for offering programs of the highest caliber, supporting new and innovative works, nurturing outstanding young artists, and expanding public appreciation of the arts.
www.plantersinn.com /eventpopup.cfm?calid=1055&show=yes   (141 words)

  
 Contrasto - Reportage
Spoleto June the 29th 2003 - Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto - In " Teatro Romano " theatre during the performance of Israeli " Ido Tadmor dance company " - (c) Contrasto
Ido Tadmor participated at the 'Festival dei Due Mondi' in Spoleto performing 'Neta', a dancing composition which alternates pictures and videos of Tador as a child and as adult person.
Being such a great professionist, Tadmor performed at the Festival although his theatre in Tel Aviv has been burned two days before the beginning of the Festival and all costumes and scenes from ten years of activity have been destroyed.
www.contrasto.it /eng/reportage/dettaglioprod.asp?idprod=1075   (529 words)

  
 Juilliard | The Juilliard Journal Online
The Juilliard Orchestra traveled to Italy this summer to serve as the resident instrumental ensemble of the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto-the orchestra’s fourth trip abroad since 1983.
"When I was approached with the opportunity to participate in Spoleto’s Festival dei Due Mondi with the Juilliard Orchestra, I felt excited and honored," flutist John McMurtery writes.
On the other end of the line was Francis Menotti, the executive and artistic director of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto.
www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/j_articles42.html   (268 words)

  
 Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In sintonia con il manifesto ufficiale del Festival 2002, la mostra al Museo dei Due Mondi dedicata a Lila De Nobili, a pochi mesi dalla sua scomparsa, è un intimo, affettuoso omaggio ad un’artista straordinariamente sensibile, il cui contributo è stato determinante per il successo del Festival.
In conjunction with the theme of the official poster of the Festival of Two Worlds 2002, the exhibition is dedicated to Lila De Nobili, just months after her death.
Her name is linked to many cinema and theatre productions, including those of Gian Carlo Menotti and Luchino Visconti, many of which have been central to the development of cultural history in Europe in the post-war period.
www.ciaoumbria.it /speciali/spoletofestival/lila.htm   (171 words)

  
 Events in Umbria including the Cerci in Gubbio and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoletto
July and August are high festival and concert season; given the popularity of these events, it pays to purchase tickets ahead of time.
During June and July is Spoleto’s Festival dei Due Mondi, Italy’s premiere international arts festival showcasing music, dance and theater.
Spoleto: Associazione Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of Two Worlds) (June-July) Three weeks of the performing arts including opera, ballet, theater and music in the medieval hill town of Spoleto.
www.wimco.com /events/evtumbria.asp   (511 words)

  
 BRAVO! Vancouver - Vancouver Washington
He founded the American Music Festival at Beaufort, NC (now in its 10th season) and was Artistic Director until 1993.
The Festival has attracted tens of thousands of jazz, wine and art aficionados and has featured Grammy-winning and international artists such as Diane Schuur, Chick Corea, Chuck Mangione, Bobby Shew, Bud Shank, Arturo Sandoval, Ernie Watts, Ed Shaughnessy, Regina Carter and others.
In 1999 she began the Southwest Washington Liturgical Arts Festival which is presented annually at St. Joseph Church.
www.bravoconcerts.com /dir.htm   (762 words)

  
 The Juilliard School - Press - Press Release
The Juilliard Orchestra will be resident instrumental ensemble for the three-week classical music schedule of the 2003 Festival dei Due Mondi taking place in Spoleto, Italy June 27 through July 20.
Festival dei Due Mondi's first-ever jazz concerts take place Mondays, June 30 and July 7, when original works will be performed by a sextet of Juilliard's first-ever jazz students along with program director and clarinetist Victor Goines, making their first European appearance.
Further information about the Festival and its programs of dance, theater, and cinema may be found on the Festival's Web site at www.spoletofestival.it.
www.juilliard.edu /update/press/2000current_releases_story.html   (498 words)

  
 Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
In 1977 Menotti brought the Spoleto Festival to the United States and directed it for 17 years.
To allow for this kind of openness of thought and interaction, especially in these kind of high concept pieces, one must have a lot of faith in the process and in the people he is working with.
So it is, with this in mind, that we are presented with the US premier of Goebbels' "Eislermaterial" at the 2003 Lincoln Center Festival this coming Sunday, July, 13th.
www.sequenza21.com /070703.html   (2749 words)

  
 Spoleto Tourist Information | Italy Heaven
The Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of Two Worlds) takes over the historic town centre, with high-quality performing arts events taking place throughout Spoleto.
Churches, piazzas and theatres are turned into festival venues, the streets are thronged and accommodation is fully-booked.
Spoleto Festival lasts for a fortnight and takes place at the end of June and beginning of July.
www.italyheaven.co.uk /spoleto.html   (831 words)

  
 Green Lake Festival of Music -  
The Green Lake Festival Choral Institute is held at Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin.
She has conducted I Cantori di New York, the Princeton University Madrigal Society, and the New Amsterdam Singers, and has sung with the Westminster Choir at the Spoleto Festival (Charleston) and the Festival dei Due Mondi (Italy), the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, and Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana.
Nielsen is active in WCDA and ACDA, from which she was awarded the Julius Herford Prize for excellence in doctoral research.
greenlakefestival.org /glfm/choralworkshop.asp   (788 words)

  
 Contrasto - Reportage
Spoleto June the 27th 2003 - New York Juilliard Orchestra, official orchestra of Festival dei Due Mondi - In the dormitory before the festival opening concert : clothes and a trumpet on the bed - (c) Contrasto
Spoleto June the 20th 2003 - New York Juilliard Orchestra, official orchestra of Festival dei Due Mondi - In the theatre during the rehearsal - (c) Contrasto
Music department is one of the most important section as some of the best musical points of reference of New York attended the Juillard: Juilliard String Quartet, American Brass Quintet and New York Woodwind Quintet, music bands students would like to join after graduating.
www.contrasto.it /eng/reportage/dettaglioprod.asp?idprod=1070   (639 words)

  
 Friends of the Festival dei Due Mondi Meet in Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Friends of the Festival dei Due Mondi Meet in Rome
The subject of the poster by Psillos - to whom a retrospective will be dedicated during the kermis - is an androgynous clown bound with fl strings, his neck in macramé, clutching the neck of a fl swan in his right hand and the helm of a sword in his left hand.
One confirmation in the program of the Spoleto festival is the famous German singer Max Raabe, who was present on the evening of Tuesday, March 15th at the Caffè Greco.
www.sanpellegrino.com /flash_site/articolo.asp?id=557   (208 words)

  
 Playbill News: Di Caprio and Pacino May Perform at '98 Spoleto Festival
Rome's newspaper "Il Messaggero" reported yesterday, Apr. 27, that Leonardo Di Caprio and Al Pacino are expected to perform at the forthcoming "Festival dei Due Mondi" in Spoleto, Central Italy.
Pacino was a guest of the Italian Festival in one of its early editions.
The 1998 programme of Spoleto's "Festival dei Due Mondi" will be officially unveiled May 27.
www.playbill.com /news/article/38560.html   (373 words)

  
 Destination Weddings in Spoleto
You will be entranced by the narrow cobbled streets which have maintained their original structure and atmosphere in spite of the many visitors that come each summer to celebrate the renown Festival dei Due Mondi.
This is one of Italy's most famous cultural festivals where great artists from all over the world celebrate music, dance and theatre.
The Duomo (church) is a true sight to behold.
italian-weddings.com /destination_wedding_locations/umbria/spoleto.html   (304 words)

  
 Festival dei Due Mondi 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
From July 1 to July 17, Spoleto will transform itself into one large stage, with concerts, performances, meetings and exhibits for the enjoyment of thousands of people, in the special atmosphere that makes the Festival dei Due Mondi so unique in the world.
The Concerti di Mezzogiorno, which have always presented top selections of world virtuosi, will be held every day from July 2 to July 17 2005.
Visual arts will focus on the creator of this 48th Festival Edition poster, Demetrios Psillos, a revolutionary Cyprus-born artist and designer, who, after having worked in the fashion industry with John Galliano, has chosen to dedicate himself exclusively to his creations.
www.sanpellegrino.com /flash_site/articolo.asp?id=747   (865 words)

  
 About the Spoleto USA Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Spoleto Festival USA was founded in the city of Charleston, South Carolina by the prize-winning composer
in 1977 as the American counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of Two Worlds) in Spoleto, Italy which was also founded by Maestro Menotti in 1958 as a forum for young American artists in Europe.
Today both Festivals are artistic homes to a great number of artists in the world of
www.ffaire.com /musicplanner/festivals/spoletoabout.html   (131 words)

  
 Hector Del Curto | Bios | Jisoo Ok
Festival, J.F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., Spoleto Festival "Festival dei Due Mondi" in Spoleto, Italy, the Town Halls of Auckland and Wellington in New Zealand, and Kumho Arts Hall in Seoul, Korea.
Ok´s appearances on radio is her performance for Concert FM, which is New Zealand´s leading classical radio station, when she was only thirteen.
Ok is a founding member of the J Quartet, which had residencies this past summer at the Spoleto Festival "Festival dei Due Mondi" in Italy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chamber music workshop as well as participating in the Juilliard String Quartet seminar.
www.hectordelcurto.com /bio_jisoo_ok.html   (322 words)

  
 Spoleto: A Gem of a Festival - Maya Wallach
Spoleto becomes a world unto itself every summer when musicians, dancers, actors, directors, choreographers, and composers from all lover the globe come together for seventeen days, performing classics as well as innovative new works.
In 1976 the Festival of Two Worlds gained new meaning when Menotti founded Spoleto Festival USA, an annual sister festival held in Charleston, South Carolina in the late spring.
If that were not enough, Charleston's Office of Cultural Affairs sponsors a parallel festival, Piccolo Spoleto, which presented an additional seven hundred events this past spring.
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1989/october/Sa16627.htm   (265 words)

  
 Michael Vaughn Productions presents the Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival
The 2001 Festival included 18 jazz bands, 30 Northwest wineries, 40 fine artists from California, Oregon and Washington and local restaurants.
He has performed with such diverse groups as the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, the Heidelberg Opera Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, St. Stephen’s Chamber Orchestra, Duke University’s Ciompi String Quartet, Raleigh Civic Symphony, Carolina String Quartet and the New Washingtonian’s Jazz Orchestra, to name a few.
While a North Carolina Visiting Artist he founded the American Music Festival at Beaufort, NC (now in its 12th season) and served as Artistic Director until moving to the West Coast in 1993.
www.vancouverwinejazz.com /MVP.php   (499 words)

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