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	About Spoleto Festival USA
		Spoleto Festival USA was founded in 1977 by Gian Carlo Menotti, Christopher Keene and others involved in the Festival of Two Worlds as the American counterpart to that festival held annually in Spoleto, Italy.
		The festival quickly became a haven for a large group of artists, both traditional and experimental, who found the mix of dance, theater, opera, music, and the visual arts to be both exciting and stimulating.
		Spoleto Festival USA has maintained traditions of the Festival of Two Worlds such as a dedication to young artists, a fascination with contemporary effort, an enthusiasm for providing unusual performance opportunities to recognized masters in their fields, and a commitment to all forms of the performing arts.
	www.spoletousa.org /info/aboutSpoleto.php (341 words)

	Spoleto Festival USA Announces Spectacular 2004 Season. - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Following its highly successful 2003 festival season distinguished by critical acclaim and record ticket sales, Spoleto Festival USA was called "one of the rare festivals to mix up the art forms and celebrate eclecticism" by The Washington Post.
		Spoleto Festival USA continues this tradition with a diverse array of over 130 performances for its 2004 season.
		Spanning three continents and more than 400 years of opera composition, the festival's 2004 operas are The Peony Pavilion, written in 1598 by Tang Xianzu; Vincenzo Bellini's 1830 bel canto gem I Capuleti e i Montecchi; Richard Strauss's 1916 Ariadne auf Naxos, and a concert version of Tom Johnson's 1972 The Four Note Opera.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-110742229.html (240 words)

	Spoleto Festival USA - History - History, Charleston, SC - Charleston Lowcountry.com
		Spoleto Festival USA - History was founded in 1977 as the American counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of Two Worlds) 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, theater, opera, music, and the visual arts to be both exciting and stimulating.
		Spoleto Festival USA - History has maintained traditions of those first festivals such as a dedication to young artists, a fascination with contemporary effort, an enthusiasm for providing unusual performance opportunities to recognized masters in their fields, and a commitment to all the performing arts.
	www.charlestonlowcountry.com /specialpages/spoletohistory.html (486 words)

	The Carolina Connoisseur visits Charleston South Carolina's Spoleto Festival USA
		Spoleto USA, Charleston's annual arts extravaganza continues though June 8th, with over 120 performances by top national and international groups scheduled.
		Spoleto concludes the weekend of June 7-8 with a number of special events, including a Flamenco-spiced Soiree on Saturday night and the Festival Finale, Sunday on the grounds of Magnolia Plantation, the oldest landscaped gardens in America.
		Venues for both Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto are scattered throughout the metropolitan area, and by the time you've traveled around to the various performances, you'll have a much greater knowledge, and appreciation, of the historic city of Charleston.
	carolinaconnoisseur.com /spoleto.htm (586 words)

	Spoleto - CharlestonWiki
		Spoleto Festival USA is an annual 17-day festival of the arts which presents opera, classical music, and drama and is held in Charleston, South Carolina in late May and early June.
		The Festival was founded by Gian Carlo Menotti, Christopher Keene, and others as an American counterpart to Festival dei Due Mondi (the "Festival of Two Worlds"), a festival which is held in Spoleto, Italy.
		Charleston was chosen as the location for the festival due to its wealth of theaters and other performance spaces.
	www.charlestonwiki.org /Spoleto (233 words)

	Opera highlights this year's Spoleto Fest - Boston.com - Music - A&E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Even at a cultural event with a reputation for opera, this season's Spoleto Festival USA could be considered the year of the opera.
		The festival also features the American premiere of the opera "The Birds" by German composer Walter Braunfels and based on Aristophanes' satirical play, opened in 1920 in Munich but was later banned by the Nazis.
		Spoleto was founded in 1977 by composer Gian Carlo Menotti as the American counterpart to the festival he staged annually in Spoleto, Italy.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/05/23/opera_highlights_this_years_spoleto_fest?mode=PF (624 words)

	Planters Inn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Spoleto Festival USA was founded in 1977 as the American counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Itlay.
		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 (134 words)

	CNN - TravelGuide: Destination - Spoleto Festival USA: On stage and in the black
		Laurie Anderson joined Spoleto a year later, with the world premiere of her operatic "Empty Spaces." This time, her space is flooded with the brooding darkness of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." She's using a Brazilian percussion ensemble and a traditional symphony to make her own brand of waves in Gaillard ("GAL-yard") Auditorium.
		To outsiders, Spoleto Festival USA often seems the sort of wonder that only an imaginative opera composer, maybe a cheerfully quixotic one, might attempt in South Carolina.
		Spoleto Festival USA still mounts as its unofficial twin centerpiece, two key operas each year -- the pattern set by the maestro.
	www.cnn.com /TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9905/spoleto.99 (1801 words)

	Charleston, SC Business Information - News Article
		Top contributors to the arts' economic impact are Spoleto Festival USA and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the study revealed.
		Schunk said that the impacts of the Spoleto Festival USA and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival were lumped together showing an annual $67.8 million impact statewide.
		The study also projected that during 2002, a total of 1,169 full-time jobs would be created by spending at the Spoleto Festival USA and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival by visitors from outside Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties.
	www.crda.org /news_article.shtml?id=180 (693 words)

	USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Spoleto Festival, USA is a massive celebration of the arts held over 17 days in a variety of venues, reflecting the rich and diverse history of the old town of Charleston.
		The festival is particularly renowned as a showcase for theatrical premières and rarely-performed operas.
		If you want to discover the "charm and grace" Rhett Butler was seeking, then a visit during the Spoleto Festival will bring you as close to his ideal as you're likely to get.
	www.whatsontheplanet.com /wow/ptnr/united/page.jsp?fx=event&event_id=21683 (252 words)

	At age 29, 'new ideas' keep Spoleto Festival USA fresh \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The Charleston festival is the child of Gian Carlo Menotti, who also founded the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, in 1958.
		In 2003, the festival raised about $20 million for programs, an endowment, and – as a real sign that it was growing up – renovated an 1802 four-story house for its headquarters.
		It was the first time the festival had a permanent home in a city where it had lived for a quarter-century.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050529/news_1a29spoleto.html (740 words)

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