Spoleto cleaning out closet and giving away years of opera costumes

  • Monday, June 11th, 2012
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Tag from the costume shop adorns an outfit that Carolyn Kostopoulos, Spoleto Festival USA's longtime wardrobe supervisor, is getting rid of along with 35 years of the festival's other opera costumes. Storage for them in a corner of the Gaillard Auditorium is ending because renovation of the downtown facility begins this summer. By Monday June 11, 2012, her staff had already shipped 50 boxes to Costume Collection in New York. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com)

Tag from the costume shop adorns an outfit that Carolyn Kostopoulos, Spoleto Festival USA's longtime wardrobe supervisor, is getting rid of along with 35 years of the festival's other opera costumes. Storage for them in a corner of the Gaillard Auditorium is ending because renovation of the downtown facility begins this summer. By Monday June 11, 2012, her staff had already shipped 50 boxes to Costume Collection in New York. (Wade Spees/postandcourier.com) Buy this photo