'Amistad' opera, Italy ties highlight Spoleto (AP)

yahoo.com     May 22, 2008            

By BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Spoleto Festival USA celebrates renewed ties with its namesake festival in Italy and features a new version of the opera "Amistad" during its 17-day season that opens Friday. The opera, which is being performed in a... [read full story]                

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ArtsBeat: At Spoleto, Hints at a Reunion

nytimes.com     May 22, 2008          

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The summer festival season is beginning, and thank you, O Blog. On Thursday night, the 32nd edition of the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. opens. Spoleto U.S.A. is an outgrowth of the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, in the Umbrian region of Italy, which was founded by Gian Carlo...                

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Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: An Opening Hints at a Reunion

nytimes.com     May 22, 2008          

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The summer festival season is beginning, and thank you, O Blog. On Thursday night, the 32nd edition of the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. opens. Spoleto U.S.A. is an outgrowth of the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, in the Umbrian region of Italy, which was founded by Gian Carlo...                

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'Amistad' opera, Italy ties highlight Spoleto

charlotte.com     May 22, 2008          

The Spoleto Festival USA celebrates renewed ties with its namesake festival in Italy and features a new version of the opera "Amistad" during its 17-day season that opens Friday.The opera, which is being performed in a newly renovated theater in this city where the Civil War began, tells of the...                

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Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: A Clash of Sensibilities, Now Resolved

nytimes.com     May 23, 2008          

The 6-foot-wide, 20-foot-long house – actually, a work of sculpture by David Hammons – has been sitting in the run-down East Side neighborhood of Charleston for 17 years now. The story is long and complicated, much like the turbulent history of the arts festivals in Spoleto, Italy, and here in...                

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'Amistad' opera highlights Spoleto

iht.com     May 23, 2008          

The Spoleto Festival USA celebrates renewed ties with its namesake festival in Italy and features a new version of the opera "Amistad" during its 17-day season that opens Friday. The opera, which is being performed in a newly renovated theater in this city where the Civil War began, tells of the...                

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Latest edition of internationally known arts festival opens

charlotte.com     May 23, 2008          

A brass fanfare, music and speeches in Italian and English will usher in the new season of the Spoleto Festival USA.The festival opens its 17-day run with noontime ceremonies Friday on the steps of city hall in Charleston.The mayor of Spoleto, Italy, will address the crowd as Spoleto renews its...                

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Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: Slave Trade in Charleston, This Time on Stage

nytimes.com     May 23, 2008          

We know fat happy Mambo, Simple lazy Sambo. CHARLESTON, S.C. — Those are among the milder lines from one of many raw scenes in “Amistad,” the opera that opened the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. It is a work about the horror of slavery performed in a port city that once supplied a large portion of this...                

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Brass fanfare, speeches, performances to open Spoleto Festival USA

iht.com     May 23, 2008          

The Spoleto Festival USA is opening its 17-day run with ceremonies Friday on the steps of the Charleston, South Carolina, city hall. The mayor of Spoleto, Italy, will address the crowd as Spoleto renews its connection with the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. Both festivals were founded...                

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'Amistad' opera, Italy ties highlight Spoleto Festival in Charleston

610cktb.com     May 22, 2008          

'Amistad' opera, Italy ties highlight Spoleto Festival in Charleston By: Bruce Smith, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Spoleto Festival USA celebrates renewed ties with its namesake festival in Italy and features a new version of the opera "Amistad" during its 17-day season that opens...                

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Spoleto Festival opens, renewing ties with Italy

charlotte.com     May 23, 2008          

The Spoleto Festival USA renewed ties with the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, on Friday amid brass fanfares, jazz, tumbling acrobats and a shower of white confetti."Today we begin again a process of mutual benefit to share and collaborate, engage our communities and our festivals,"...                

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