Coming to Spoleto Damiano Michieletto, Carla Bruni and Friedemann Vogel
The 67th Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto continues for the second weekend of performances. After the opening with Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos there is great anticipation for the second opera on the bill: award-winning Italian director Damiano Michieletto is directing Orpheus and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti (July 5-6), for a new production created in collaboration with the Komische Oper in Berlin where it was staged in January 2022. The musical performance is entrusted to theOrchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Vocalconsort Berlin Chorus, led from Antonello Manacorda and joined from by a cast of international caliber. Raffaele Pe plays Orpheus, Nadja Mchantaf is on stage as Eurydice, Josefine Mindus and Susan Zarrabi alternate for that of Amore. Spoleto also awaits the debut of Carla Bruni at the Teatro Romano friday July 5: The "first lady of jazz-pop," as the Guardian called her, will go over her greatest hits to starting with the song that marked the beginning of her career, Quelqu'un m'to dit. The noontime concerts continue, the timely appointments with from chamber music: this weekend's guests are the musicians of thePerugia Orchestra from Camera for a performance of Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat (July 5, with an afternoon repetition dedicated to younger children), the celebrated Jack Quartet (July 6), and the ensemble led from Raffaele Pe La Lira di Orfeo (July 7). The weekend closes in music on Sunday, July 7, with a concert by Barbara Hannigan at the Teatro Romano: with her extraordinary voice back to sing John Zorn along with to an extraordinary group of celebrated musicians, active from jazz to contemporary, such as the JACK Quartet, Ches Smith on drums, Jorge Roeder on bass, Sae Hashimoto on vibraphone and Stephen Gosling on piano.
Coming soon is Memory of to fall, a new creation-which is already the Festival's most popular show-conceived from Yoann Bourgeois for the Cathedral Square (July 6). To the music of Hania Rani, one of today's most original pianists, the dancers glide from an imposing stage structure, a moving reflection on the fall of the human condition. Landing to Spoleto is world dance star Friedemann Vogel with his new choreography Die Seele am Faden/Soul Threads, staged to San Simone July 5-7. Vogel collaborates with visual artist Thomas Lempertz to create a show inspired by the text The Puppet Theater by Henrich von Kleist: after all, the dancer and the puppet both move by following someone else's will.
With The Cherry Orchard, running July 4-7 at Teatro Caio Melisso Spazio Carla Fendi, Leonardo Lidi 's journey into Anton Čechov's theater reaches its third and final stage. In Lidi's vision, the garden becomes synonymous with "our" theater, which - in the face of consumer society - risks being so irrelevant from that it can easily be torn down to build a parking lot. A profound reflection on the meaning of theater-making closes the trilogy, completed from Il gabbiano (2022) e Zio Vanja (2023), also scheduled as a marathon on July 7.
After the success of the first weekend, Davide Enia is on stage until to Sunday, July 7 (Auditorium della Stella). Enia constructs a self-portrait that starts from "his" Palermo and the story of little Giuseppe di Matteo - son of a kidnapped and murdered collaborator of justice from Cosa Nostra -, a story in which the Mafia mirrors family reality.
The Uffa che barba! project also continues, with artistic supervision by Italian director Antonio Latella and students from the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art. Following Giovanni Ortoleva, this weekend includes performances by Federica Rosellini(Freaks), Leonardo Manzan(When We Dead Awaken) and Paolo Costantini(Romeo and Juliet). The #SIneNOmine company presents CRETA (July 4-5, Casa di Reclusione di Maiano in Spoleto), the new show born from the workshop created in the Spoleto House of Reclusion under the guidance of Giorgio Flamini, as part of the project that from years brings theater to prison as a tool for personal growth and inclusion. Medium and high-security inmates tell their Crete, a space-time labyrinth where they seek exit through self-expression. The Festival dei Due Mondi comes out of the theaters and spills through the city. It will be the facades of Spoleto's buildings that will welcome the dancers of Il Posto, the first in Italy to to devote themselves to site-specific performances on vertical planes. The spaces of Via Saffi (July 5-7) and Palazzo Collicola (July 5 and 7) are the exceptional stage for two vertical dance performances, accompanied by music for sax and live electronics by the Marco Castelli Small Ensemble.
The powerful immersive experience signed by the duo Adrien M & Claire B continues throughout the Festival (through July 14, Complesso Monumentale di San Nicolò). Last Minute is a combination of music, light and interactive projections, created from an intimate lived experience from Claire Bardainne that led her to to research, together with co-creator Adrien Mondot, the concept of reincarnation: thelast-minute journey.
The featured artists of the second weekend of the Festival tell their stories to the public at the traditional artist talks at the Festival Garden. friday July 5 speakers include directors Leonardo Lidi and Leonardo Manzan, to followed by Damiano Michieletto and Fabiana Giacomotti (July 6), and Barbara Hannigan with the JACK Quartet (July 7).
The festivals to curated by theSilvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art and La MaMa Spoleto Open host emerging talents and established Italian and international artists, in particular the Academy Project offers student director Mattia Spedicato's exercise Conversation from bathroom (July 4, Sala Frau) and the first-year essay Parole di legno directed by Massimiliano Civica (July 5, 6, 7, Palazzo Leti Sansi). MaMa Spoleto Open continues at Cantiere Oberdan with the dance show 2 solos and 1 step to two (July 4, 5), Of the Nightingale I Envy the Fate by the MOTUS company (July 6) and the children's show Marionettes in Search of Manipulation (July 7). Elements is the theme of the 2024 edition of the FuoriFestival, focused on multidisciplinary artistic activities sensitive and receptive to territory, memory and biodiversity. For the weekend, the program features the multidisciplinary project ARIA at the Hermitage of St. Leonard (July 5) and live performances by Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm (July 5, Meeting Point) and Federico Antonini (July 7, Casa Menotti).
Among the special initiatives, the collaboration with Rai Direzione Per la Sostenibilità - ESG continues on the themes of social, inclusion, legality, cohesion, environment, human rights and territories. The initiative Culture Breaks Bars (July 6, Sala Pegasus), in collaboration with Rai Fiction, Rai Kids, TGR Umbria and Rai Umbria returns with the screening of a documentary on the workshop carried out by Rai in the kitchens of the hotel school of the Maiano prison in Spoleto; the presentation of the Project School exercise of freedom with which Rai donates 400 decommissioned and regenerated company PCs to the Prison Administration containing 1.800 videolessons made from Rai Scuola; the monologue Angelo pettegolo to by the #SIneNOmine theater company; the preview of the podcast Quando la cultura rompe le sbarre by Radio Rai and Rai Per la Sostenibilità - ESG.
Ends friday July 5 film festival on environmental sustainability at Pegasus Hall Natural Resistance with the screening of the children's film Yuku and the Flower of the Himalayas and the documentary Until the End of the World. The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto honors director Damiano Michieletto with the Fondazione CARISPO Award for his innovative and visionary directorial style capable of breaking conventions (July 5, Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti). Special projects continue with the creative upcycling workshop The Dream Workshop (July 6 at 10am, Festival Garden and July 7 at 10am-1pm, Complesso Monumentale di San Nicolò) and with Utopias and Dystopias. A Shaky Boundary , the 9th National Day of the World That's Not There, a two-day seminar (July 6, Palazzo Mauri and July 7, Spoleto Prison) organized from CESP - Network of Restricted Schools, with a panel discussion focusing on education pathways in prisons. At Sala Frau (July 7), for the meeting Sessanta decibel, Italo Carmignani will retrace ten short stories and interviews of Italian journalistic information in the last fifty years, with artistic supervision by Danilo Capezzani. Sixty decibels as the unit of measurement of the perfect listening threshold.
Success with the public for the art exhibitions that opened last weekend and that enrich the Festival's program: The Ferrara Years 2008 - 2020 to curated by Piero Maccarinelli at the Via Saffi spaces, a tribute to Giorgio Ferrara's thirteen years as director, among photographic testimonies and the costumes of his directorships d'opera; Legàmi, a project created by photographer Luis Alberto Rodriguez and set designer Afra Zamara for Fondazione Carla Fendi in collaboration with Mahler & LeWitt Studios. The two artists reinterpreted some of the 3,800 costumes that illustrate the history of the Festival, tying, knotting, overlapping and building new combinations that capture their charm and details (through July 14, Ex Battistero della Manna d'Oro). Mahler & Lewitt Studios also presents the works of artist Jonathan Monk, including some ceramic sculptures made during his artistic residency to Deruta (Torre Bonomo until July 14) and the exhibition Umru: tales from a hydrosocial landscape by Cecilia Ceccherini and Alberto Valz Gris made in collaboration with the Musei Civici di Spoleto at the Museo del Tessuto e del Costume (until July 14). Until Oct. 7, the Church of St. Agatha hosts artist Stefano di Stasio's installation, which becomes a backdrop for initiatives and concerts. As every year, the Civic Museums of Spoleto host a series of interventions by contemporary artists located in different venues in an art circuit within the city. Of particular note is the solo exhibition of Chiara Camoni-author of the Spoleto67 manifesto-an exhibition path that winds through the rooms of the Piano Nobile of Palazzo Collicola (until July 14). References to the natural and plant worlds, strongly present in the artist's practice, intersect with the spaces, in an unprecedented dialogue that also features works created for the occasion.
Vivi il Festival returns again this year: the side events organized in collaboration with a number of entities in the Spoleto area such as the project Behind the scenes, continuing with Spoleto secret and underground and The White Nights of the Festival scheduled for Saturday, July 6 among traveling concerts, artistic performances, aperitifs and typical dinners with free tastings of Trebbiano Spoletino, stores and Civic Museums open until to midnight. The initiative, also scheduled for Thursday, July 11, is the result of a synergy between Comune di Spoleto, the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi, the Confcommercio di Spoleto, the Consorzio Operatori Turistici ConSpoleto and La MaMa Umbria International.
The 67th edition of Festival dei Due Mondi is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Comune di Spoleto. It is realized with the support of Fondazione Carla Fendi (Main Partner), Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto and Banco Desio. We would like to thank Intesa Sanpaolo (Premium Supporter), Monini (Official Sponsor), Italmatch Chemicals, Meccanotecnica Umbra and Susa Trasporti (Partners), Fabiana Filippi, Tomasini Francia - Rolex and Emu (Sponsors), Lexsus (Official Car), VUS COM and MD (Supporters) and the other supporters, partners and technical sponsors. Media Partners of the event are: RAI (Main Media Partner), La Repubblica, Il Messaggero and Urban Vision. APA Roma is Advertising partner.