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

The initiatives of the Festival dei Due Mondi for the city and for tourists on the occasion of the Christmas holidays with the reopening, from 8 December to 8 January, of the exhibition itinerary On tracks by Gian Carlo Menotti, which includes the exhibition Gli anni Menotti 1958-1998 at the palace ex Monte di Pietà of Via Saffi and the Documentation Centre of Casa Menotti. The reopening of the exhibition route during the winter allows to public, tourists and visitors to the city to get to know and appreciate the immense heritage of stage costumes, photographs, documents and films that the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi has committed itself to to recover and enhance in the last two years. The exhibition Gli anni Menotti 1958-1998, renewed for the occasion, allows you to observe the personal universe of the founder of the Festival, his friends, his artists, his intuitions. Unpublished photos, films and sketches tell the story of the atmosphere of the Festival in those years. Furthermore, thanks to the collaboration with the Istituto Luce, the exhibition includes 40 photographs that tell the worldliness and internationality of the "Menotti years". The Casa Menotti Festival Documentation Centre was created by the Monini Foundation and in collaboration with the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Comune di Spoleto. Thank you 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 works and shows, it will be like taking a real leap into the past to discover that event called Festival dei Due Mondi that Gian Carlo Menotti conceived, founded and made famous in the world. During the Christmas period, new panels will be installed in the alternative mobility routes with the photographic portraits of the guest artists of the last edition of the Festival, from Barbara Hannigan to Yoann Bourgeois, which will be added to the historical testimonies that accompany passengers along the way.