Christmas holidays: reopens the exhibition route "On the tracks of Gian Carlo Menotti"

Festival dei Due Mondi 's initiatives for the city and tourists continue for the holiday season with the reopening, from Dec. 8 to Jan. 8, of the exhibition itinerary On the tracks of Gian Carlo Menotti, which includes the exhibition The Menotti Years 1958-1998 at the former Monte di Pietà building on Via Saffi and the Menotti House Documentation Center. The reopening of the exhibition itinerary during the winter allows to public, tourists and visitors to the city to learn about and appreciate the immense heritage of stage costumes, photographs, documents and films that the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi has been working to to recover and enhance over the past two years. The exhibition The Menotti Years 1958-1998, renewed for the occasion, allows visitors to observe the personal universe of the founder of the Festival, his friends, his artists, his insights. Never-before-seen photos, films and sketches recount the atmosphere of the Festival in those years. In addition, thanks to the collaboration with Istituto Luce, the exhibition includes 40 photographs that recount the worldliness and internationality of the "Menotti years." The Menotti House Festival Documentation Center was created by the Monini Foundation and in collaboration with the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi and the City of Spoleto. Thanks to a multimedia and interactive set-up that allows, among other things, to view theatrical sets revisited in a high-tech key, programs, catalogs, historical films and projections of operas and performances, it will be like taking a real leap into the past to discover the event called Festival dei Due Mondi that Gian Carlo Menotti conceived, founded and made famous in the world. During the Christmas period, new panels with photographic portraits of the guest artists from the last edition of the Festival, from Barbara Hannigan to Yoann Bourgeois, will be installed in the alternative mobility routes, adding to the historical accounts that accompany passengers along the route.