"1959 is an important year because the Festival is announced with a progressive number, 2nd Festival dei Due Mondi. This is a sign, uncertain as it may be, of the will to move forward on the momentum of the previous year's success." So wrote Sandro Morichelli and Gianni Toscano in 1987. The latter had been the communist mayor who in 1958 had launched the event by welcoming to open arms the "Americans" following Gian Carlo Menotti. The second Spoleto Festival was prepared against the backdrop of a city in which the need for and the first signs of profound change were being felt both economically and infrastructurally. Along with the experimentation of new performance formulas such as _Album Leaves _directed by Steven Vinaver and Fogli d´Album directed from Franco Zeffirelli, there is a pressing need for new spaces from to be used for theater, for exhibitions as well as for stagecraft workshops and for the offices in charge of organization. Just as one begins to to talk about converting the Albornoz Fortress for cultural purposes as well. "1959 is also the year of the invention of the Concert in the Piazza del Duomo," writes Maurizio Modugno, ...
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_Thursday, June 28 at 9:30 a.m. _
Section of the State Archives of Spoleto (Largo G. Ermini)
Conference and volume presentation
Spoleto 1959. The second Festival dei Due Mondi
to Edited by Paolo Bianchi and **Antonella Manni **
in collaboration with the Order of Journalists of Umbria
Institutional greetings _Luigi Rambotti (Director of State Archives of Perugia), Mayor of Comune di Spoleto, Roberto Conticelli (President of the Order of Journalists of Umbria), Giorgio Ferrara (Artistic Director Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi), Paola Mercurelli Salari (Director Rocca Albornoz, Museum ...
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