Presentation of the 65th Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto

A press conference was held April 11 at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti to present the sixty-fifth edition of Festival dei Due Mondi, scheduled from June 24 to July 10, 2022. Speakers included Foundation President Festival dei Due Mondi Andrea Sisti, Umbria Region Culture and Tourism Councillor Paola Agabiti, Festival dei Due Mondi Artistic Director MoniqueVeaute and Festival dei Due Mondi Administrative and Organizational DirectorPaola Macchi.Also this year the Festival hosts the best performing experiences to international level, enhancing theaters, outdoor spaces and unconventional venues, of which Spoleto offers a unique concentration in Italy: more than 60 performances in 17 days, all Italian premieres, with more than 500 artists from 36 countries in 15 venues.For the second year as artistic director, Monique Veaute is following her multidisciplinary and international vocation, weaving a web of relationships across the individual arts that is condensed around to three programmatic lines: the music of the two Worlds, women's voices and new ways of telling music.The musical programming looks at the relationship between the two shores of the ocean, a link of which from always Gian Carlo Menotti has been a promoter, and embraces multiple languages thanks in part to the presence of the two orchestras-in-residence, the Budapest Festival Orchestra accompanied by principal conductor Iván Fischer and theOrchestra of the 'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Antonio Pappano. Barbara Hannigan, soprano and conductor, arrives at the Spoleto Festival with a "carte blanche," and her presence for four different concerts is part of the path that the new edition develops with the female figures who have given a new direction to the performing arts. The musical offerings include jazz and electronic, baroque and contemporary, from the ensemble Sentieri selvaggi 's review of American music to Tovel's performance between prepared piano sculptures and electronic processing. from do not miss the voices of Angelique Kidjo, Mariza and Dianne Reeves, in Piazza Duomo with their special concerts for Spoleto. Among the artists involved for the revolutionary force of their work on the border between dance, music and theater are choreographers Germaine Acogny, founder of the École des Sables, Blanca Li, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and director Jeanne Candel - who presents for the first time in Italy a new musical theater experience conceived with Samuel Achache. to five years after her death, the Festival pays tribute to Trisha Brown, an icon of contemporary dance. Belonging to the new generation of choreographers are Alexander Vantournhout, Ayelen Parolin, Luz Arcas with her company La Phármaco and Yoann Bourgeois. The Theater section brings to Spoleto German director Thomas Ostermeier and presents the latest works of Italian playwrights such as Fabio Cherstich, Leonardo Lidi, Davide Enia and the duo RezzaMastrella.Surrounding the official program are side events and special events that make Spoleto a living place of artistic creation of our time: meetings with artists, awards, art installations, film festivals and exhibitions. The artist Anselm Kiefer signs the official manifesto of the 65th edition.The project launched in 2021 to make the Festival's organizational machine adhere to the principles of sustainable development, pursuing, with concrete and targeted actions, some of the goals of Agenda 2030 continues, with an ever-increasing impetus.[embed]https://youtu.be/HEu91Isd7ZY[/embed]