Charles Wadsworth
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A visit to the Spoleto Festival in Umbria on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. Highlights of the film: Don Giovanni: - director Gian Carlo Menotti, conductor Thomas Schippers, set designer Henry Moore; The Stuttgart Ballet: - choreographer John Cranko; Jerzy Grotowski's staging of El Principe Constante by Calderón presented by the Warsaw Lab Theatre, Charles Wadsworth, originator of Chamber Music Concerts at Noon - featuring brilliant young...
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When Gian Carlo Menotti created the Spoleto festival in 1958, he imagined it existing in two worlds, Europe and America. After years of debate as to where the beloved festival should take place in the United States, the city of Charleston was chosen. Charleston, much like Spoleto is a place rooted in history. It was Charleston’s grand cultural allure that secured it as the rightful spot for Spoleto USA. Home to many churches, houses and theaters...