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Set in Jim Crow South Carolina, Stinney is based on the horrific events leading to the execution of the youngest person sentenced to death in 20th-century America. Glow Lyric Theatre is presenting four performances of the opera—a collaboration between Frances Pollock and Tia Price—through the end of July.
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The musician once again brought his love for the string instrument to a wide range of Spoleto Chamber Music Series performances in 2022.
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Festival Artistic Directors Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers speak on the growth of the SEPF since its inaugural year, and take a look at how it serves as both a showcase for top talents and a forge of friendships.
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Harpist Parker Ramsay offers insights into his instrument and its central role in The Street—a collaboration between composer Nico Muhly and librettist Alice Goodman being performed for the first time in the US.
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Pianist Renate Rohlfing shares about Spoleto Festival USA's Tell Your Story, a new oral history project that fosters artistic collaboration between Spoleto Orchestra fellows and lifelong residents of the South Carolina Lowcountry.
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The composers of the much-anticipated opera—which premiered on the opening day of the 2022 Spoleto Festival USA—describe how their choices about melody, harmony, rhythm, style, and lyrics work together to bring the story of Omar ibn Said to audiences in a new way.
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Spoleto General Director Mena Mark Hanna envisions the 46th season of the Charleston performing arts event as one that will broaden conceptions, explore spirituality, and express the "wonderment of life".
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Over eighty string instruments owned by European Jews before and during the Holocaust have been carefully restored by violin makers Amnon and Avshi Weinstein. For the next several weeks, South Carolinians will be able to see these instruments and hear them played in a range of concerts, presentations, and exhibits across the state.
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Operatic baritone Will Liverman and pianist Paul Sánchez—Director of Piano Studies at CofC and Artistic Director of the university's International Piano Series—are joining together once again for the first Charleston performance of works from their acclaimed album Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers.
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Inspired by the Charleston-area legend of early 19th-century convicts John and Lavinia Fisher, Jeremy Turner's Six-Mile House premieres in Beaufort on Sunday, April 10th, with a second performance in Columbia on April 12th.