Sixty performances starring 700
artists from 13 countries will take centre stage at the 68th
edition of Spoleto's Festival of Two Worlds, Italy's oldest and
most eclectic performing arts fest.
Stars of the festival, which runs in the northern city from June
27 until July 13 will include William Kentrige, Ersan Mondtag,
Robert Mappelthorpe, Clement Cogitore.
Artistic director Monique Veaute has organized a very
heterogenous and multidisciplinary program inspired by Gustav
Mahler's Song of the Earth.
Performances and concerts will feature, among others, Ersan
Mondtag and the Berliner Ensamble, Alessandro Baricco, Stefano
Bollani, Enrico Rava, Luca Marinelli Federico Tiezzi, Sandro
Lombardi, Massimo Popolizio and Umberto Orsini, the musicians
of Rome's national academy of Santa Cecilia and the Budapest
Festival Orchestra.
The event will open with the opera Hadrian by New York composer
Rufus Wainwright from a text by Marguerite Yourcenar.
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