A Festival as Workshop. The medieval city, cradle of the great Italian tradition of "arts" and "workshops," once again becomes a place for the production of original staging, conceived for the occasion and brought to the public for the first time. The Festival deepens and expands its necessary vocation as a showcase offered to young people and to all that is new and profound. At the same time it confirms itself as a prestigious international showcase of the most persuasive and exemplary that has appeared in the most recent season on the world's stages.