Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston

Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston

This year's Spoleto Festival will be held from May 24-June 9. For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolina’s historic theaters, churches, and outdoor spaces with performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers in opera; theater; dance; and many different genres of music. Now approaching its 43rd season, Spoleto Festival USA is internationally recognized as America’s most popular performing arts festival.

Spoleto Festival USA was founded in 1977 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, Christopher Keene, and others who sought to create an American counterpart to their annual Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. They searched for a city that would provide the charm of Spoleto as well as its wealth of theaters, churches and other performances spaces. They selected Charleston as the ideal location. The historic city provided a perfect fit: intimate enough that the Festival encompasses the entire city, yet cosmopolitan enough to provide an enthusiastic audience and bring people in from all over the country!

Elissa Campbell 

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