- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
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Category Archives: Spoleto
Flip-flopping at Spoleto, Italy
June 29, 2008 – 9:31 am
First there was talk of sharing an opera, now there’s none.
Dan Wakin, the classical music reporter for The New York Times, is in Italy covering the Festival of Two Worlds, the counterpart to Charleston’s Spoleto Festival USA. He writes that the two festivals are considering sharing an orchestra next year, at a cost that was […]
My new name? “Some.”
June 12, 2008 – 12:24 pm
Jeffrey Day, of The State newspaper, wrote a piece that ran in today’s paper about Charles Wadsworth, the director of Spoleto’s chamber music series since 1977, who announced his retirement last weekend after the 2009 festival.
Day writes that “some” speculated that this would happen after Geoff Nuttall, the principal violinist of the St. Lawrence String […]
Time for Spoleto Buzz
May 21, 2008 – 8:36 am
You may have noticed by now that our issue today is devoted, almost entirely, to this year’s Spoleto Festival USA. We’re all very excited about the line-up, especially the cover story on Monkey: Journey to the West, a collaboration between opera and film director Chen Shi-Zheng, Gorillaz singer Damon Albarn, and Gorillaz illustration Jamie Hewlett. […]
It’s official: Spoleto makes nice with Italy, but …
April 23, 2008 – 2:56 pm
Just as we reported yesterday, Spoleto Festival USA officially announced today that it would be talking with the Festival of Two Worlds Foundation, in Spoleto, Italy, to “establish similar ties to those discontinued in 1993″ and “explore opera and theater productions that can be shared by the two festivals beginning in the 2009 season,” according […]
Evolution: The Alternative to Spoleto Art Show
April 22, 2008 – 9:42 pm
Actually, it’s a series of art shows curated by the one and only Philip Hyman. Venues are the following:
may 22nd - west ashley - voodoo (art by sht!, julio cotto, john pundt, carl janes, proton + more)
may 31st - north charleston - the old village (progressive art, photography, graffiti wall + more)
june 6th - west […]
Pulitzer-winner Tim Page hired as P&C’s Spoleto overview critic
April 22, 2008 – 4:12 pm
Tim Page, the much-respected and award-winning classical music critic for the Washington Post, will be the Spoleto overview critic for The Post and Courier this year.
Steve Mullins, managing editor of the P&C, issued a press release to area media today with details about the daily newspaper’s hiring of the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author. The […]
Spoleto to collaborate with the Italians in 2009
April 22, 2008 – 11:49 am
Spoleto Festival USA is set to announce a “strategic alliance” with the Festival of Two Worlds Foundation in Spoleto, Italy.
“We are going to announce some kind of plan, if that’s the word, some kind of framework, for collaboration in the 2009 festival,” Nigel Redden, executive director, said this morning.
The announcement could happen as early as […]
SC slashes $246,000 from Spoleto funding
April 5, 2008 – 12:32 pm
The Post and Courier reported today that South Carolina’s state budget has been stripped of $246,000 alloted for Spoleto Festival USA . . .
[The move] quickly caught the eye of Senate Minority Leader John Land. The Manning Democrat’s wife serves on Spoleto’s board. “Every dollar they get helps South Carolina,” Land said.
And the dollars they […]
Update: Redden in India during visit by Italian delegation, but formal reunification unlikley
April 3, 2008 – 3:38 pm
In my last post, I wrote about the last-minute addition, reported in The Post and Courier, of an opera to the Spoleto Festival line-up. It turns out there’s nothing to substantiate the report.
In the same post, I reported that Nigel Redden was not present during a meeting on Monday between city of Charleston, the city […]
A last-minute Italian opera for ‘08 Spoleto? Nope. (Now with an all-new update!)
April 2, 2008 – 2:06 pm
A report in yesterday’s Post and Courier implied that the new director of the Festival of Two Worlds Foundation, the Italian sister of Charleston’s Spoleto Festival USA, was going to scour the Holy City’s theaters searching for a good place for an opera in the 2008 festival:
He [Giorgio Ferrara] said there are also plans to […]
