SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA PROGRAM HISTORY 2017 – 1977 Spoleto Festival USA Program History Page 2 Table of Contents, Organized by Year 2017 .................................... 3 2016 .................................... 6 1996 .................................... 76 2015 .................................... 10 1995 .................................... 79 2014 .................................... 13 1994 .................................... 82 2013 .................................... 16 1993 .................................... 85 2012 .................................... 20 1992 .................................... 88 2011 .................................... 24 1991 .................................... 90 2010 .................................... 27 1990 .................................... 93 2009 .................................... 31 1989 .................................... 96 2008 .................................... 34 1988 .................................... 99 2007 .................................... 38 1987 .................................... 101 2006 .................................... 42 1986 .................................... 104 2005 .................................... 45 1985 .................................... 107 2004 .................................... 49 1984 .................................... 109 2003 .................................... 52 1983 .................................... 112 2002 .................................... 55 1982 .................................... 114 2001 .................................... 59 1981 .................................... 116 2000 .................................... 62 1980 .................................... 120 1999 .................................... 66 1979 .................................... 123 1998 .................................... 69 1978 .................................... 126 1997 .................................... 73 1977 .................................... 130 ** World Premiere * American Premiere Spoleto Festival USA Program History Page 3 2017 Opera Eugene Onegin; music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky; libretto by Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Stepanovich Shilosky after Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse (1833); conductor, Evan Rogister; director, Chen Shi-Zheng; set designer, Chris Barreca; costume designer, Alice Tavener; lighting designer, Scott Zielinski; video designer, Austin Switser; choreographer, Ruthy Inchaustegui; Cast: Mary Phillips, Natalia Pavlova, Krysty Swann, Tichina Vaughn, Franco Pomponi, Jamez McCorkle, Peter Volpe, Grant Farmer, Andrew Stack, Nathan Granner; University of North Carolina School of the Arts dancers; Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; Westminster Choir; Charleston Gaillard Center *Farnace; music by Antonio Vivaldi; libretto by Antonio Lucchini; conductor/harpsichordist, David Peter Bates; director, Garry Hynes; set designer, Francis O’Connor; costume designer, Terese Wadden; lighting designer, James F. Ingalls; movement director/associate director, David Bolger; Cast: Anthony Roth Costanzo, Cassandra Zoe Velasco, Kiera Duffy, Naomi Louisa O’Connell, Augusta Caso, Nicholas Tamagna, Kyle Pfortmiller, Mason Fisher, Juvon Gilliard; Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, assistant conductor/harpsichordist Elliot Figg; theorbo, Grant Herreid; Dock Street Theatre *Quartett; music and libretto by Luca Francesconi; conductor, John Kennedy; director, John Fulljames; associate director, Gerard Jones; set and costume designer, Soutra Gilmour; associate set designer, Colin McIlvaine; lighting designer, Bruno Poet; associate lighting designer, Sarah Brown; sound designer, David Sheppard and Ian Dearden of Sound Intermedia; video designer, Ravi Deepres; associate video operator/designer, Ethan Forde; Cast: Adrian Angelico, Christian Miedl; Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; produced in association with the Royal Opera House; Memminger Auditorium Dance Monchichi; Company Wang Ramirez; artistic direction, conception, choreography, and dance by Honji Wang and Sébastian Ramirez; College of Charleston Sottile Theatre Yo, Carmen; María Pagés Company; direction and choreography by María Pagés; dramaturgy, El Arbi El Harti; Charleston Gaillard Center **While I Have the Floor; written, choreographed, and performed by Ayodele Casel; director, Brian Harlan Brooks; Woolfe Street Playhouse OCD Love; L-E-V; created by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar; sound artist and live music by Ori Lichtik; College of Charleston Sottile Theatre ** World Premiere * American Premiere Spoleto Festival USA Program History Page 4 W H A L E; Gallim Dance; artistic director, Andrea Miller; choreography, Andrea Miller in collaboration with the dancers of Gallim Dance; dramaturgy, Ron Amit; College of Charleston Sottile Theatre We Love Arabs; text and choreography by Hillel Kogan; Cast: Adi Boutrous and Hillel Kogan; Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston Physical Theater Il n’est pas encore minuit…; Compagnie XY; collective choreography, Compagnie XY; Memminger Auditorium Theater Murmurs; conceived and directed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin; set design, Victoria Thierrée Chaplin; Cast: Aurélia Thierrée, Jaime Martinez, Magnus Jakobsson; Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston Angel; Gilden Balloon Productions in association with Redbeard Theatre Ltd.; written by Henry Naylor; director, Michael Cabot; Cast: Avital Lvova; Woolfe Street Playhouse Waiting for Godot; Druid; written by Samuel Beckett; director, Garry Hynes; designer, Francis O’Connor; lighting designer, James F. Ingalls; sound designer, Greg Clarke; movement director, Nick Winston; Cast: Garrett Lombard, Aaron Monaghan, Rory Nolan, Marty Rea, Boris Pekar, Tyler Caplea; Dock Street Theatre Ramona; Gabriadze Theatre; written, directed, and art by Rezo Gabriadze; Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston The Table; Blind Summit Theatre; director, Mark Down; puppet, Nick Barnes; Cast: Fiona Clift, Mark Down, Tom Espiner; Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston Music Bank of America Chamber Music; director and host, Geoff Nuttall; composer-in- residence, Jarosław Kapuściński; quartet-in-residence, St. Lawrence String Quartet: Geoff Nuttall, Owen Dalby, Lesley Robertson, Christopher Costanza; percussion, Steven Schick; countertenor, Anthony Roth Costanzo; flute, Tara Helen O’Connor; oboe, James Austin Smith; clarinet, Todd Palmer; piano/harpsichord, Pedja Muzijevic, Stephen Prutsman, Gilles Vonsattel; violin, Benjamin Beilman, Livia Sohn; violin/viola, Daniel Phillips; viola, Meena Bhasin; cello, Joshua Roman; double bass, Anthony Manzo; Rolston String Quartet: Luri Lee, Jeffrey Dyrda, Hezekiah Leung, Jonathan Lo; Dock Street Theatre Music in Time; director and host, John Kennedy; Program I: Tempus Fugit; cello, Patrick Hopkins, viola, Alfonso Noriega; bassoon, Ben Roidl-Ward; members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; conductor, Jeffrey Means; Program II: Sounding Peace; solo violin and electronics, Alice Hong; violin, Grace Nakano; percussion, ** World Premiere * American Premiere Spoleto Festival USA Program History Page 5 Rainice Lai; flute, Meghan Bennett; celesta/piano, Aya Yamamoto; narrator, John Kennedy; members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; conductor, Jeffrey Means; Program III: Lecture on the Weather; texts by Henry David Thoreau; recordings by Maryanne Amacher; film by Luis Frangella; members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; Program IV: Haydn Dialogues; piano, Pedja Muzijevic; Woolfe Street Playhouse (I, II, III); Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston (IV) Westminster Choir; conductor, Joe Miller; alto, Taria Mitchell; alto, Pauline Taumalolo; Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul Spoleto Celebration Concert; conductor, Evan Rogister; featuring: Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, musicians from Bank of America Chamber Music, Westminster Choir, Krysty Swann, Franco Pomponi, Quiana Parler, Natalia Pavlova, Jamez McCorkle, Kiera Duffy; Charleston Gaillard Center Della Mae; College of Charleston Cistern Yard Mahler 4 and Dreaming; Dreaming (flow), composition by Anna Thorvaldsdottir; conductor John Kennedy; Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; Symphony no. 4, composition by Gustav Mahler; conductor, John Kennedy; Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; soprano, Pureum Jo; Charleston Gaillard Center Mozart’s Great Mass; conductor, Joe Miller; Westminster Choir, Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra; Charleston Gaillard Center **Cinema and Sound; original music by Stephen Prutsman; films: Suspense, The Cameraman’s Revenge, Mighty Like a Moose; featuring: Stephen Prutsman, Emerson Millar, Autumn Chodorowski, Dan Ubanowicz, Chava Appiah; Woolfe Street Playhouse Rhiannon Giddens; Charleston Gaillard Center Wells Fargo Festival Finale featuring The Revivalists; also Becca Leigh, She Returns from War, and Brave Baby; Middleton Place Wells Fargo Jazz Dee Dee Bridgewater; College of Charleston Cistern Yard Sofía Rei; Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston Pedrito Martinez Group; College of Charleston Cistern Yard Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9; College of Charleston Cistern Yard Charles Lloyd Quartet, Charleston Gaillard Center Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective; College of Charleston Cistern Yard Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road; Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston ** World Premiere * American Premiere Spoleto Festival USA Program History Page 6 Artist Talks Conversations With; host, Martha Teichner John Fulljames and John Kennedy Garry Hynes Ayodele Casel Stephen Prutsman Jazz Talks; host, Larry