The 67th edition of the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds kicks off

The 67th edition of the famous Festival dei Due Mondi is underway, which has secured for the second year the presence of a conductor such as Iván Fischer and his orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra; and, equally, of a formation such as the Orchestra di S. Cecilia, engaged in the opera and the final concert, which presents (finally!) music that Spoleto has rarely been able to hear. Innovation in the Ossola Valley, with the Sphera project; and great young singer-songwriters in Canavese, and young artists from Italy to the Congo.

From 28 June to 14 July the 67th edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi, with more than sixty performances including opera, music, dance and theatre, performances and art installations. The opera 'Ariadne at Naxos' by R. Strauss opens, with a line-up such as the Budapest Festival Orchestra and its founder and conductor Ivá Fischer; it will be an 'Ariadne' without the prologue, in place of which a choreographed version of 'Bourgeois gentilhomme', also by Strauss, will be presented. We will also remember Gluck's 'Orpheus and Eurydice', with another excellent formation, the Orchestra di S. Cecilia, conductor Manacorda and direction by Michieletto. It concludes on the 14th with the traditional Concert in Piazza Duomo again the Orchestra di S. Cecilia with the direction and voice of Barbara Hannigan and a special programme. Hannigan brings the 'Girl Crazy Suite' from Gershwin's famous musical to the Festival; she recorded it and won a Grammy Award. In the first part of the concert is the unfrequently performed 'Le festin de l'araignée', a suite from Albert Roussel's ballet about a parade of insects caught in a spider's web among the plants of a sunny garden.

From 21 to 23, in the former granite quarry that we already know from the season of Tones Teatro Natura, here is Sphera, a new project, a three-day event of performances, music, talks, excursions, meditative practices and in-depth studies on the theme of ethical food and wine. Participants will include singer-songwriters Marianne Mirage and Carmen Consoli, science philosopher Telmo Pievani, the Tlon project, journalist and wine divulger Sandro Sangiorgi, digital creator Little Vegan Witch, anthropologist Valeria Mosca and explorer Stefano Luca Tosoni, the Atmospherica collective, the Wood*ing Wild Food Lab and the Apiario del Benessere, and Sky Tg 24 deputy director Alessandro Marenzi. Inspired by the principles of the New European Bauhaus Project - the European project for the transformation of ways of thinking and lifestyles based on sustainability, inclusiveness and technological innovation - Sphera aims to touch every aspect of human existence, from the intellectual to the emotional, up to the care and wellbeing of the body.

From 21 to 23 at Parco Dora Baltea the Apolide festival, more than 40 shows including concerts, new circus performances, encounters and DJ sets scattered in various city venues and on the four performance points. In the line up singer-songwriters such as Motta, Cosmo and Ex-Otago, the hard-pop sound of Santi Francesi; the rock of Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti. And then the equatorial groove of Parbleu, the new dance anthems, between future garage and post-dubstep, of Okgiorgio, the cosmopolitan pop of Italo-Palestinian singer Laila Al Habash, the songwriting of Elasi. The electro pop of Queen Of Saba, like Monte Mai, the Parisian Uto and the duo Le Feste Antonacci; while an eclectic and demanding form of contemporary industrial music characterises the Italian-Spanish duo Dame Area. From Congo the new generation of Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, with their experimental afro pop.