- Staff report
- Friday, May 24, 2013 12:14 a.m.
The Post and Courier today kicks off its daily, comprehensive coverage of Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto Festival.
- Friday, May 24, 2013 11:33 a.m.
Nigel Redden, general director of Spoleto Festival USA, on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
- Friday, May 24, 2013 11:29 a.m.
What: Program I is Xenakis’ “Rebonds” for solo percussion and Schubert’s String Quintet in C major.
- BY LUCIA CAMARGO ROJAS and BRIANA PREVOSTSpecial to The Post and Courier
- Friday, May 24, 2013 12:01 a.m.
In 2002, young dancers from the shantytowns of Brazil who had been discovered by a French choreographer, took to the Spoleto...
- BY EESHA PATKARSpecial to The Post and Courier
- Friday, May 24, 2013 12:01 a.m.
The American premiere of the opera “Matsukaze” is a hybrid of several diverse elements. Based on a Japanese Noh...
It was not uncommon to have a visceral reaction when watching “Oedipus” at the Dionysus Festival or viewing...
For Carrie Fisher, it was a temporary escape from the persona of Princess Leia. For Anna Deavere Smith, it was a prism through...
- BY MELANIE DEZIELSpecial to The Post and Courier
- Friday, May 24, 2013 12:01 a.m.
This year’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival not only will spotlight local and regional musicians, but also local and regional...
In 2004, Tristan Sturrock was enjoying May Day in Cornwall, England, when a terrible accident threatened to change his life...
- BY JOSH AUSTINSpecial to The Post and Courier
- Friday, May 24, 2013 12:01 a.m.
At the start of the 20th century, the Ringling brothers and their latest acts were household names, just like many sports figures...
- BY BRIANA PREVOSTSpecial to The Post and Courier
- Friday, May 24, 2013 12:01 a.m.
Compagnie XY is known for setting its athletic circus performances to traditional French music, and its new piece, “Le...
- BY VINNY Y. HUANG Special to The Post and Courier
- Friday, May 24, 2013 12:01 a.m.
In 1999, Lincoln Center Festival staged a 16th-century Chinese opera called “The Peony Pavilion” at the LaGuardia...
- BY XIAORAN DINGSpecial to The Post and Courier
- Friday, May 24, 2013 12:01 a.m.
More with less. That’s the central idea behind the Japanese tradition of Noh theater, which has been honed over the past...
Spoleto Festival USA consistently presents a diverse offering of traditional and contemporary classical music performed at the...
This year, Spoleto Festival USA is presenting an Italian opera double bill featuring not-very-well-known short works by Puccini...
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
