CASA MENOTTI

Established in 2011 through a collaboration between the Monini Foundation, the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation and Comune di Spoleto, the Documentation Center of Festival dei Due Mondi is based inside Casa Menotti, the historic palazzetto at Piazza Duomo where the Festival was born and where Maestro Giancarlo Menotti lived, composed and hosted internationally renowned artists.

The Documentation Center has become in the three years it has been open a living place for Spoleto culture to accessed by thousands of visitors each year. Not only is it possible to find there the catalogued and digitized documentary, audio, video, photographic and printed material on the Festival from 1958 to today, but also to attend the concerts held in the museum rooms where many objects that belonged to the maestro (including his piano) are collected, to stop for a day of study or simply to make a visit that allows one to immerse oneself in the life and works of Gian Carlo Menotti.

In addition, each year the center is enriched with new documents, among the most interesting, which will be accessible to starting from this edition of the Festival, we will find those related to the years 1987 and 2012 that have recently been digitized and included in the archives. For 1987 it will thus be possible to review, for example, the historic edition of Wagner's Parsifal (6 at of music) with the direction of Menotti himself and scenes by Pierluigi Samaritani, the Montezuma created for the Festival from Heinrich Graun, and then again Die Gespenstersonate opera by Albert Reiman, the performance of the Stuttgarter Ballet and all the prose of that year with such titles as Vasco Pratolini's La storia di Nini , Svevo's Un piccolo delinquente nevrotico, David Mamet's Tutti gli uomini sono puttane, Raffaele Viviani's Fatto di cronaca. Even more extensive is the documentation on 2012 with 32 performances, for as many as 39 at recordings and all the protagonists of the past edition.

Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

For info: www.casamenotti.it

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