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With a libretto by Spoleto Festival USA founder Gian Carlo Menotti, a new version of Samuel Barber's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera "Vanessa" will have its U.S. premiere during this year’s festival – 45 years after the original was produced here in 1978.The revamped love story, directed by Rodula Gaitanou, initially opened at the 2016 Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland. While it opened May 27, it will also play June 6 and June 10 at Charleston Gaillard Center with international soprano Nicole Heaston,
The opera of this year’s Spoleto Festival USA is “Vanessa,” an existential drama that follows its titular character through a harrowing journey of love, longing and loss. It’s historically important to the festival, written by Samuel Barber with a libretto by his partner, Gian Carlo Menotti, the founder of Spoleto.
Lightning sometimes strikes twice. English Touring Opera hit topical gold last spring when, wholly by coincidence, they found themselves touring with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian anti-war satire The Golden Cockerel. Now the company’s general director Robin Norton-Hale insists that their current tour of Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims – written in 1825 to celebrate the coronation of