The Festival remembers Gian Carlo Menotti on the anniversary of his death with an extraordinary opening of an Exhibition.

Spoleto, Jan. 30, 2023 - On Wednesday, Feb. 1, Festival dei Due Mondi remembers its founder Gian Carlo Menotti, on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of his death, with the special opening of the exhibition The Menotti Years 1958-1998 at the palace ex Monte di Pietà in via Saffi, in the new exhibition layout curated from Piero Maccarinelli and Monica Trevisani.
Admission to the exhibition is free, with continuous hours from at 11 a.m. to at 7 p.m. On this occasion, the public will be able to visit the exhibition accompanied by the curator, with an account of the heritage recovery project launched by the Foundation in the past two years. At at 11 a celebratory moment is planned in the presence of Foundation President and Mayor of Spoleto Andrea Sisti and Councillor Danilo Chiodetti.

The new exhibit allows visitors to get from up close and personal with the personal universe of the Festival's founder through previously unpublished photos, films, posters and original programs that tell the story of the Festival's atmosphere in those years. The extraordinary wealth of productions from the Menottian period is evidenced by the display of costumes from L'italiana in Algeri from 1969, Amahl and the Night Visitors from 1996 and Nose from 1995. Thanks to the collaboration with Istituto Luce, which has made to available unpublished materials, 40 photographs are on display that restore the worldly and international spirit of the "Menotti years."

The exhibition is part of the recovery and enhancement project launched by the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi over the past two years. Openings of the exhibition routes during the winter allow to public, tourists and visitors to the city to learn about and appreciate the immense heritage of stage costumes, photographs, documents and films that tell the story of the Festival.

Exhibition The Menotti Years 1958-1998
February 1, 2023, at 11-19
Via Saffi, palace ex Monte di Pietà
Free admission

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