Music by Gian Carlo Menotti Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti Director, Daisy Evans Conductor, Timothy Myers Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra Step into a world of gossip and intrigue in The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti, the visionary founder of Spoleto Festival USA. Produced by Spoleto, this comedic one-act — composed in […]

Along with Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha , the opera Akhnaten (1983) forms a triptych about science, politics, and religion. Composer Philip Glass, often in collaboration with theater maker Robert Wilson, thus created a sweeping musico-dramatic panorama of current affairs in a unique new formal language. In Akhnaten , after his father's death, the […]