'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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Brass fanfare, speeches, acrobats open Spoleto Festival USA as it renews ties to Italy

iht.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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Spoleto Festival opens, renewing ties with Italy

app.com     May 23, 2008          

The Spoleto Festival USA renewed ties with the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, 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...                    

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Spoleto Festival opens, renewing ties with Italy

iht.com     May 23, 2008          

The Spoleto Festival USA renewed ties with the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, 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...                    

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Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: Italians Looking to Welcome a Prodigal Offspring

nytimes.com     May 24, 2008          

A delegation from Spoleto, Italy, attended a ceremony to inaugurate the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston and a rapprochement with the festival’s Italian parent, the Festival of Two Worlds. ... CHARLESTON, S.C. — There they sat, in the first row, in dark suits. A...                    

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Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: From Moral Challenge to Frothy Comedy

nytimes.com     May 24, 2008          

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Spoleto Festival U.S.A. traveled light-years in 24 hours. After the opening performance of “Amistad,” the musically and morally challenging opera about slavery composed in the 1990s, on Thursday, the festival introduced a production of Rossini’s frothy opera “La...                    

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Spoleto Festival opens in Charleston, renewing ties with Italy

610cktb.com     May 24, 2008          

Spoleto Festival opens in Charleston, renewing ties with Italy By: Bruce Smith, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Spoleto Festival USA renewed ties with the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, amid brass fanfares, jazz, tumbling acrobats and a shower of white confetti. "Today we...                    

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Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: Poetry in Chains

nytimes.com     May 24, 2008          

CHARLESTON, S.C. — One of the strengths of “Amistad,” the opera composed by Anthony Davis and the flagship production of the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. this year, is Thulani Davis’s poetic libretto. Here are excerpts. Margru, a young woman captive, sings of her capture: They don’t know I left a baby...                    

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Review: Listless score hurts 'Amistad'

charlotte.com     May 24, 2008          

Spoleto Festival USA doesn't just rely on the time-capsule charm of its hometown to lure arts lovers. It offers them the unfamiliar, offbeat or new. Why should anyone come here for what they can see at home?Until Spoleto staged Anthony Davis' opera "Amistad" on Thursday, nobody had seen it since...                    

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Spoleto Festival off to congenial start

myrtlebeachonline.com     May 24, 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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`Amistad' performers take on a listless score

charlotte.com     May 24, 2008          

Spoleto Festival USA doesn't just rely on the time-capsule charm of its hometown to lure arts lovers. It offers them the unfamiliar, offbeat or new. Why should anyone come here for what they can see at home?Until Spoleto staged Anthony Davis' opera "Amistad" on Thursday, nobody had seen it since...                    

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