2019 ------------------------ Go Spoleto! Hotel-and-Ticket Package Book with one of our Go Spoleto! partners and save 20% on select performances. Once your hotel is reserved, use the promo code (from the hotel) when buying tickets. Note: Some performances may not apply for Go Spoleto! discounts. Check the list below the program information. Please call the Spoleto Festival USA box office with any questions: 843.579.3100. 2019 Festival dates: MAY 24-June 9 ABOUT SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston's historic theaters, churches, and outdoor spaces with a dizzying array of performances of opera, theater, dance, and music. We invite you to browse the 2019 season and begin to plan your Festival experience. 2019 PROGRAM INFORMATION OPERA SALOME Best known for the "Dance of the Seven Veils," Salome depicts the biblical story of Herod's lovesick stepdaughter and John the Baptist's ill fate in this contemporary production featuring Oscar Wilde's rich text. MUSIC THEATER PATH OF MIRACLES PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GIRL Interweaving stories about the sexes-their conflicts, their love, their tricks-this piece unearths timely truths from ancient Islamic tales we thought we knew. Limit: 4 tickets ROOTS With its signature fusion of handcrafted animation, storytelling, and original score, English theater company 1927 offers a series of rarely told folktales that glimpse imaginations from a pre-industrialized age. SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE This ethereal work, sung a cappella by the Westminster Choir, This London troupe brings three works from Western civilizatraces the inspiration, the travails, and the rewards of the Camino de Santiago-a spiritual path across northern Spain. tion's most celebrated playwright: Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, and Pericles as well as special " Audience Choice" shows. THEATER THE FEVER Performed in complete collaboration with the audience, The Fever begins as a simple story about an ordinary party and evolves into a spellbinding examination of how we assemble, organize, and care for the bodies around us. Limit: 4 tickets LETTER TO A FRIEND IN GAZA In the world premiere of filmmaker Amos Gitai's multimedia performance, four actors-two Palestinian and two Israeliaddress the conflict at the Israel-Gaza border. WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF Based on her meticulously detailed teenage diaries, Cora Bissett performs her own rollercoaster journey from the rockstar girl she was, singing in a hot indie band in Scotland, to the woman she wanted to be. DANCE BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY The three works in Analogy Trilogy weave together movement, text, and song to create an intriguing rumination on the nature of service, duty, and the idea of a life well-lived.
DATE TIME PERFORMANCE GENRE VENUE Thursday May 23 Friday May 24 1:00 PM Chamber Music I Music Dock Street Theatre 7:30 PM Roots Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 8:00 PM Salome Opera Charleston Gaillard Center 9:00 PM Esperanza Spalding Wells Fargo Jazz Cistern Yard Saturday May 25 11:00 AM Chamber Music I Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music I Music Dock Street Theatre 2:00 PM Roots Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 3:00 PM Conv Joe Miller Artist Talks Charleston Library Society 5:00 PM Music in Time The Living Earth Show Music Woolfe Street Playhouse 7:00 PM Compagnie Hervé Koubi Dance Charleston Gaillard Center 7:00 PM David Virelles Wells Fargo Jazz Simons Center Recital Hall 8:00 PM Music in Time The Living Earth Show Music Woolfe Street Playhouse 8:00 PM Roots Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 9:00 PM Esperanza Spalding Wells Fargo Jazz Cistern Yard Sunday May 26 11:00 AM Chamber Music II Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music II Music Dock Street Theatre 2:00 PM Compagnie Hervé Koubi Dance Charleston Gaillard Center 3:00 PM Music in Time Rebellion in Greenery Music Woolfe Street Playhouse 5:00 PM David Virelles Wells Fargo Jazz Simons Center Recital Hall 5:00 PM Roots Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 7:00 PM City Symphonies Music Memminger Auditorium 7:00 PM David Virelles Wells Fargo Jazz Simons Center Recital Hall 9:00 PM Punch Brothers Music Cistern Yard Monday May 27 11:00 AM Chamber Music II Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music III Music Dock Street Theatre 2:00 PM Roots Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 5:00 PM Conv 1927 Artist Talks Emmett Robinson Theatre 5:00 PM David Virelles and Román Díaz Wells Fargo Jazz Simons Center Recital Hall 7:00 PM David Virelles and Román Díaz Wells Fargo Jazz Simons Center Recital Hall 7:30 PM Path of Miracles Music Charleston Gaillard Center Tuesday May 28 11:00 AM Chamber Music III Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music III Music Dock Street Theatre 5:00 PM David Virelles and Román Díaz Wells Fargo Jazz Simons Center Recital Hall 7:00 PM Jazz Talk David Virelles Artist Talks Simons Center Recital Hall 7:00 PM Roots Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 7:30 PM Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Dora) Dance Memminger Auditorium 8:00 PM Classical Showcase Music Dock Street Theatre Wednesday May 29 11:00 AM Chamber Music IV Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music IV Music Dock Street Theatre 7:00 PM Dafnis Prieto Big Band Wells Fargo Jazz Charleston Gaillard Center 7:00 PM Pay No Attention to the Girl Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 7:30 PM Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Lance) Dance Memminger Auditorium
Thursday May 30 11:00 AM Chamber Music IV Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music V Music Dock Street Theatre 3:30 PM Jazz Talk Terri Lyne Carrington Artist Talks Simons Center Recital Hall 7:00 PM Pay No Attention to the Girl Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 7:00 PM Theater Dock Street Theatre 7:30 PM Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Ambros) Dance Memminger Auditorium 7:30 PM Salome Opera Charleston Gaillard Center 8:00 PM Letter to a Friend in Gaza Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 9:00 PM Geri Allen Tribute Quintet Music Cistern Yard Friday May 31 11:00 AM Chamber Music V Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music V Music Dock Street Theatre 5:00 PM Conv Bill T. Jones Artist Talks Memminger Auditorium 5:00 PM Pay No Attention to the Girl Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 7:30 PM Letter to a Friend in Gaza Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 8:00 PM Music in Time Stay On It Music Simons Center Recital Hall 8:00 PM Path of Miracles Music Charleston Gaillard Center 9:00 PM Carla Bley - Trios Wells Fargo Jazz Cistern Yard 9:00 PM Pay No Attention to the Girl Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse Saturday June 1 11:00 AM Chamber Music VI Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music VI Music Dock Street Theatre 2:00 PM Pay No Attention to the Girl Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 3:00 PM Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Dora) Dance Memminger Auditorium 5:00 PM Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Lance) Dance Memminger Auditorium 5:00 PM Westminster Choir Music St. Matthew's Lutheran Church 7:30 PM Letter to a Friend in Gaza Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 7:30 PM Prokofiev and Shostakovich Music Charleston Gaillard Center 8:00 PM Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Ambros) Dance Memminger Auditorium 8:00 PM Pay No Attention to the Girl Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 9:00 PM Music Cistern Yard Sunday June 2 11:00 AM Chamber Music VI Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music VII Music Dock Street Theatre 2:00 PM Letter to a Friend in Gaza Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 3:00 PM Salome Opera Charleston Gaillard Center 7:00 PM Letter to a Friend in Gaza Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre Monday June 3 11:00 AM Chamber Music VII Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music VII Music Dock Street Theatre 7:00 PM Music in Time in vain Music Simons Center Recital Hall Tuesday June 4 11:00 AM Chamber Music VIII Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music VIII Music Dock Street Theatre 6:00 PM Circa Physical Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 7:00 PM The Fever Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 7:30 PM St. John Passion Music Charleston Gaillard Center 8:00 PM What Girls Are Made Of Theater Memminger Auditorium 9:00 PM The Fever Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse
Wednesday June 5 11:00 AM Chamber Music VIII Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music IX Music Dock Street Theatre 5:00 PM Conv The Fever Artist Talks Charleston Library Society 7:00 PM Circa Physical Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 7:30 PM Salome Opera Charleston Gaillard Center 8:00 PM What Girls Are Made Of Theater Memminger Auditorium Thursday June 6 11:00 AM Chamber Music IX Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music IX Music Dock Street Theatre 5:00 PM The Fever Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 7:00 PM Circa Physical Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 7:30 PM What Girls Are Made Of Theater Memminger Auditorium Friday June 7 11:00 AM Chamber Music X Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music X Music Dock Street Theatre 5:00 PM Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson Wells Fargo Jazz Simons Center Recital Hall 5:00 PM Westminster Choir Music St. Matthew's Lutheran Church 6:00 PM Circa Physical Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 7:30 PM One Thousand and One Nights Dance Charleston Gaillard Center 7:30 PM What Girls Are Made Of Theater Memminger Auditorium 9:00 PM The Fever Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse Saturday June 8 11:00 AM Chamber Music X Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music XI Music Dock Street Theatre 2:00 PM The Fever Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 2:00 PM What Girls Are Made Of Theater Memminger Auditorium 5:00 PM Circa Physical Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 5:00 PM The Fever Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 5:00 PM Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson Wells Fargo Jazz Simons Center Recital Hall 8:00 PM One Thousand and One Nights Dance Charleston Gaillard Center Sunday June 9 11:00 AM Chamber Music XI Music Dock Street Theatre 1:00 PM Chamber Music XI Music Dock Street Theatre 2:00 PM The Fever Theater Woolfe Street Playhouse 2:00 PM One Thousand and One Nights Dance Charleston Gaillard Center 3:00 PM Circa Physical Theater Emmett Robinson Theatre 5:00 PM Festival Finale featuring Curtis Harding Music Riverfront Park