Gian Carlo Menotti , composer, impresario, President of the Spoleto Festival, spends a large part of each year at his Scottish retreat-Yester House, one of Scotland's finest stately homes. The rest of the year he spends globetrotting but in July he returns to Spoleto to mastermind the Festival of Two Worlds which he founded 21 years ago.
Last summer, besides producing his own opera Maria Golovin , he was commissioned to write a new piece for strings and harpsichord but.... Highlights from other festival events including
Carla Fracci , Paolo Bortoluzzi Minzoku Buyo Dan Westminster Choir
Coro Madrigal di Bucarest
Vincenzo Balzani , Richard Jackson Scottish Baroque Ensemble director LEONARD FRIEDMAN Spoleto Festival Orchestra conductor LORENZO MUTI
Film cameraman DICK JOHN STONE Film recordist GRAHAM ROSS Film editor DAVID WHITE Producer JAMES HUNTER