Wednesday, August 3 premiered on TV on Rai5 the documentary dedicated to the Festival
Spoleto, Aug. 1, 2022 - On Wednesday, Aug. 3, Rai 5 dedicates its programming evening to the just-concluded sixty-fifth edition of Festival dei Due Mondi : premiering on TV at 9:15 p.m. is the documentary produced during the event for the Visioni program and to followed, at 10:05 p.m., by the final concert recorded last July 10 at piazza Duomo to Spoleto, featuring Antonio Pappano, the Orchestra of the 'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Barbara Hannigan.The episode of Visions recounts the 65th edition in the words of artistic director Monique Veaute and includes interviews with some of the Festival's main artists: Barbara Hannigan, Antonio Pappano, Germaine Acogny, Malou Airaudo, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Thomas Ostermeier, Dianne Reeves, Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza, Jeanne Candel, Mariza, Leonardo Lidi, and the dancers of the Trisha Brown Dance Company. The documentary is a program by Alessandra Greca, written with Emanuela Avallone, Franca De Angelis, Francesca Filiasi and Paola Mordiglia, and directed by Roberto Valdata.Antonio Pappano, the Orchestra of theAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Barbara Hannigan are the stars of the closing concert recorded last July 10 at piazza Duomo and dedicated to American music. Barbara Hannigan performs Samuel Barber's Knoxville:Summer of 1915, a rarely performed work based on James Agee's novel to Death in the Family: a child lying in the summer grass, to Knoxville in Tennessee, looks up at the sky and lets his thoughts chase the joys and sorrows of life. Suggestions of overseas, a theme that ran throughout the sixty-fifth edition of the Festival, are also echoed in the second part of the concert, with the performance of the "American" symphony par excellence: the Third by Aaron Copland.