- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Spoleto
One step closer to reunifying the Spoleto Festivals
March 28, 2008 – 3:30 pm
An Italian delegation will be in Charleston on March 31 to talk about bringing two cities and their respective international arts festivals — Spoleto USA and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy — back together again after years of division, according to a press release issued Friday, March 28.
The news comes more […]
Spoleto alum Chen Shi-Zheng’s Dark Matter
March 28, 2008 – 11:21 am
Spoleto alum Chen Shi-Zheng and his new film called Dark Matter, about a school shooting, is featured in today’s New York Times. He returns to Charleston in May for his music theater production of Monkey: Journey to the West, which he created with the help of Blur’s Damon Albarn and a 26-foot tall statue of […]
I wonder what this means for the Spoleto Festival
March 14, 2008 – 2:21 pm
The Boston Ballet are one of the high-profile dance companies to perform during the 2008 Spoleto Festival. According to this report from The New York Times, the company is about the sack nine of its dancers, including two principles. The news came out Thursday and comes days after the ballet’s executive director announced she was […]
Breaking News: Piccolo Spoleto 2008 announced
March 5, 2008 – 4:20 pm
The city of Charleston held a press conference today to announce the 2008 Piccolo Spoleto. There’s wasn’t much news other than the line-up, which features the same quality we’ve come to expect over 30 years. I’ll break down some highlights below for you. For comprehensive information, though, you’ll need to check out the festival’s full […]
Renee Fleming and Spoleto
March 2, 2008 – 7:51 am
Jeff Day, at the State newspaper, reminds us that Renee Fleming, at the top of her game as the Met’s leading opera diva, got her start at Spoleto. His article today also serves as a reminder that artists of Fleming’s caliber had to start somewhere. In fact, Fleming graduated from the same small New York […]
No More Mum Memminger
January 5, 2008 – 3:07 pm
Every year, Charleston plays host Spoleto Festival USA. You might have heard of it. Well, the line-up to the 2008 festival was announced on Dec. 30. It looks like the year of the Memminger.
The festival has put about $6 million into renovating Memminger Auditorium, the old Colonial-style theater built in the 1930s. It’s located in […]
The 2008 Spoleto Festival
December 31, 2007 – 12:41 pm
From the AP —J.S.|
Spoleto 2008 rechristens old hall with reworked opera “Amistad”
December 30, 2007
COLUMBIA, South Carolina: An old hall will be revived for next year’s Spoleto Festival USA and will host a reworked version of the 1997 opera “Amistad” about a slave revolt.
Memminger Auditorium, built in the 1930s as a reproduction of a Colonial-era theater, […]
Celebrity the way it used to be
July 6, 2007 – 12:00 pm
American opera legend Beverly Sills died last week at 78. Readers of a certain age don’t have the slightest clue who she is, of course — they’re fixated on the modern variety of celebrity, the Parises and Anna Nicoles who are famous for nothing more than being attractive, completely talentless, and very, very wealthy. But […]
Roses for Daisey
April 25, 2007 – 1:40 pm
Two-time Spoleto veteran and monologuist Mike Daisey got a faceful of rejection last Thursday night when, only a few minutes into his show Invincible Summer, 87 members of the audience decided, all at once, that they were out like Sanjaya. On the way out, one of them dumped a bottle of water (Daisey’s, no less) […]
