Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: GREMIGNANI, Franco
Event Date: 1958-06
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.290691

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: Eve of `Festival of Two Worlds? at Spoleto. Spoleto, a small town near Assisi, has been chosen as the site of a festival which will be known as `Festival of Two Worlds and the hope is to make it an annual event. Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti who has succeeded in raising $136 000 for the three-week festival hopes to make Spoleto as famous a festival name as Salzburg, Tanglewood or Baalbek. The three-week event which features US [United States] Theatre, Opera, Ballet and Art has the chief aims to demonstrate to Europeans the skills and talents of young Americans. Picture shows: Famous American composer Samuel Barber. Markings:Verso: Eve of `Festival of Two Worlds? at Spoleto. Spoleto, a small town near Assisi, has been chosen as the site of a festival which will be known as `Festival of Two Worlds and the hope is to make it an annual event. Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti who has succeeded in raising $136 000 for the three-week festival hopes to make Spoleto as famous a festival name as Salzburg, Tanglewood or Baalbek. The three-week event which features US [United States] Theatre, Opera, Ballet and Art has the chief aims to demonstrate to Europeans the skills and talents of young Americans. Picture shows: Famous American composer Samuel Barber.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PERSONALITIES / B
Retouching: Y