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Spoleto will bring six world and two U.S. premieres to Charleston during its annual, 17-day arts festival.

At the start of his first season as the festival's Director of Chamber Music, cellist and composer Paul Wiancko seeks a meeting place of "musical universes" at Charleston's Dock Street Theatre.

"The Book of Life" explores healing through letters written to the victims of the Rwandan genocide from widows, orphans, even the killers.

The first Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from C.P.E. Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Osvaldo Golijov, and a special remembrance of late Chamber Music Series Artistic Director Geoff Nuttall.

From opera to chamber music and Scottish ballet, this year’s Spoleto Festival USA includes more than 120 performances over 17 days.

Spoleto Festival USA premieres 'Omar' after a two year, pandemic-related delay. The opera shares the story of a Muslim scholar from Senegal who was sold into slavery in Charleston and wrote the only known autobiography by a slave in Arabic in America.

The first new general director for Spoleto Festival USA in nearly 40 years, Mena Mark Hanna, is inspired by the world premiere of the opera Omar and has plans to bring more people of color on stage and in the audience.

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.

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".

Beginning Friday, May 22, South Carolina Public Radio is proud to present special Spoleto Festival USA programming as part of a new “Spoleto at Home”…