Festival dei Due Mondi (“Festival of the Two Worlds”) | Orpheus by Claudio Monteverdi
Venue: Piazza Duomo, Spoleto

The Accademia Bizantina, conducted by Ottavio Dantone, performs Monteverdi’s famous opera in the area in front of the Spoleto Cathedral.
Festival dei Due Mondi – Opening Performance – Orpheus by Cladio Monteverdi
Accademia Bizantina
Pier Luigi Pizzi – direction, stageplay and costumes
Ottavio Dantone –  conductor

Claudio Monteverdi’s Orpheus is considered the first complete expression of opera, conceived with the wish to “blend” different forms of representation; symbolically, the Spoleto 2020 Festival dei Due Mondi will begin with this opera which continues to be a landmark work in Italian and international musical heritage after more than four centuries. The place intended for the performance will be the space in front of the Cathedral of Spoleto; here, respecting the Monteverdiano musical textures and in perfect union with the dramatic composition, the Accademia Bizantina conducted by Ottavio Dantone will once again bring to life the all too human and universal story of Orpheus.

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Puccini Festival | Giacomo Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”

Venue: Gran Teatro all’aperto Giacomo Puccini, Torre del Lago

Another masterpiece by Giacomo Puccini which narrates the tragic circumstances of Cio Cio San, a Japanese woman in love with an American marine, Pinkerton.

Puccini Festival – Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
The Puccini Festival Orchestra
The Puccini Festival Choir
Manu Lalli – direction, settings and costumes
Enrico Calesso – conductor
Roberto Ardigò – choir conductor
Shoko Okada as “Cio Cio San
Raffaele Abete as Pinkerton
Annunziata Vestri as Suzuki

The Puccini Festival is one of the most awaited events in the rich cultural life of Tuscany, the most important opera festival in Italy and the only one in the world dedicated to the composer Giacomo Puccini. It takes place every summer in the months of July and August in the very places that inspired Maestro Puccini to compose his immortal melodies.

Founded in 1930, over the years the festival became an important event that attracts thousands of spectators from all over the world and lets them watch some of the biggest stars of opera directed by major conductors, and admire the extraordinary sets curated by famous directors of Puccini’s operas, from Madama Butterfly, Turandot, La Bohème, Tosca to Manon Lescaut. Puccini’s operas are staged in a large open-air theatre (3.400 seats) on the shores of Lake Massaciuccoli, surrounded by greenery, right in front of Maestro Puccini’s House Museum where you can find the remains of the musician and where visitors can admire treasures and relics from Puccini’s life and glorious artistic career.

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Festival dei Due Mondi | ‘The Creatures of PrometheusThe Creatures of Capucci’

Venue: Piazza Duomo, Spoleto

Festival dei Due Mondi (“The Festival of the Two Worlds”)

The Creatures of Prometheus

by Ludwig Van Beethoven

The Creatures of Capucci
by Roberto Capucci

Staged Concert

presented by Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa
Daniele Cipriani Company
Orchestra by Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa
Andrea Battistoni conductor 
Ludwig Van Beethoven music 
Roberto Capucci original costumes 
curated by Daniele Cipriani
Simona Bucci choreographies 

For the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, the Teatro Carlo Felice Foundation of Genoa presents the staged concert “The Creatures of Prometheus | The Creatures of Capucci”. On one hand, there’s Ludwig van Beethoven and the only one of his works created for the ballet–the two-act composition “The Creatures of Prometheus” (Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus), Op.43. On the other hand, Roberto Capucci, the maestro of international haute couture and an innovator of style who could make clothes interact with nature, art and architecture, who is the protagonist here along with his visually powerful sketches.

The concert, accompanied by stage movements by Simona Bucci, combines music and fashion in a double and original tribute to creative genius and the inventive potential of art.

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