PREMIO MONINI

SHIZEN KAZAMA

11 a.m. _

It is only a window, but looking out to "that" window is becoming an increasingly coveted gesture for artists participating in the Festival dei Due Mondi because appearing to that window, the same to that Gian Carlo Menotti used to look out of to greet the audience in the company of the most prestigious artists, means having won "A Window on the Two Worlds." While waiting for Juliette Gréco, to who at 6:30 p.m. will be awarded the Sixth Edition of the Prize, after John Malkovich, Adriana Kučerová, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Willem Dafoe and Tim Robbins, at at 11.00 a special edition of the Prize reserved for young people will be awarded to Casa Menotti from Maria Flora and Zefferino Monini to Shizen Kazama, the Japanese dancer who to Spoleto plays the role of the Prince in step to three in Black Swan by

Nureyev. The Prize was established by the Monini family in 2010 after the Monini Foundation, of which Maria Flora Monini is president, purchased Casa Menotti to build a museum and documentation center on the Festival. Maria Flora and Zefferino Monini wanted to bring that gesture back to life, a never-forgotten tradition of the Spoleto kermesse. So each year among the world-renowned artists and young recruits present at the Festival, a quality jury selects the recipient of the main prize and a "special youth prize." Shizen, too, will face the ledge for the ritual photo entrusted to Fabian Cevallos, the official photographer of the Prize, thus entering the

gallery of young promises who also thanks to the Monini Prize owe much to Spoleto from whose careers often took off.

JULIETTE GRECO

at 18.30

Juliette Gréco is the winner of the 2015 Monini Prize "A Window on the Two Worlds." The celebrated French singer and actress, an unforgettable icon of post-war bohemian style, receives the prestigious award, established by the Monini family to honor the international talent of one of the leading figures of Festival dei Due Mondi. Singer-muse of the existentialists - Sartre said of her that she had "millions of poems in her voice" - but also an actress - in the 1960s she was one of the faces of the famous RAI screenplay Belfagor - Gréco is at the Festival with Merci, a show as part of the tour

with which the French music star celebrates his farewell to the stage. Awarded for the first time in 2010 to John Malkovich, the Prize celebrates not only artistic excellence, but also a tradition dear to the Spoleto Festival, this year in its 58th edition: that of overlooking Piazza Duomo from the window of Casa Menotti, which in 2011 became home to the Festival's Documentation Center after being purchased by the Monini Foundation, chaired from Maria Flora Monini. from that window were in fact used to greet the kermesse's audience the maestro

Gian Carlo Menotti and his guests. And it is at the same window that the winners of the Monini Prize "A Window on the Two Worlds" look out each year today. Juliette Gréco is the sixth winner of the award - which reproduces precisely the famous window - strongly desired from Maria Flora and Zefferino Monini, which over the years, after Malkovich, has awarded the Slovak soprano Adriana Kučerová, the great dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and Hollywood stars Willem Dafoe and Tim Robbins.