Word: spoleto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the claims of such chic newcomers as Spoleto, Europe's two most important music festivals remain Salzburg and Bayreuth. As they opened last week-Bayreuth with new productions of all four operas of Richard Wagner's Ring, and Salzburg with a new Festspielhaus reputed to be the world's most technically advanced theater-both festivals were musically still far ahead of most other summer fare, but seemed disappointing compared to the success of past seasons...
...Spoleto (June 8-July 10). Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds rounds into its third year with its finances noticeably sagging but its programing as lively as ever. The opener is a new production of La Boheme, directed by Menotti and conducted by Thomas Schippers. Also on the program: three works by the newly formed Spoleto ballet company, Cherubini's rarely heard Missa Solemnis...
Afraid that they were being eased out of their jobs in a played-out lignite mine near Spoleto, 90 miners went on a sitdown strike 1,300 ft. underground. They got friends to send down bedding. Officials of their Communist-run union organized relays to send down food and wine. The strikers played cards, chatted or took long walks in the eerily echoing galleries...
...could survive, and soon about one-third of the strikers, worried about their families or tired of living like moles, got out by emergency exits. Wives and children of the remaining strikers gathered at the pithead to talk by phone to their men below on Mine Level 13. Spoleto's Archbishop Raffaele Mario Radossi, using the same phone, implored the strikers to surface and negotiate. Worried company officials struggled to keep the pumps operating and the ventilating system working so that the men would not fall victim to methane gas. The workers counted on attracting national attention to their...
Settling Down. Next year Schippers will open the Met season with a new production of Verdi's early opera Nabucco. On his schedule for spring and summer: recording his first album for Columbia and running Italy's international Spoleto Festival. In perhaps three years' time he admits that he would like to settle down with an orchestra of his own, and he knows just the kind he wants: "One-third Italian musicians for their line, one-third Jewish for their sound, a sprinkling of Germans for solidity." But, adds Schippers, he must live in a city "that...