Spoleto e la 67esima edizione del Festival dei Due Mondi

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(Adnkronos) - Spoleto è nel pieno della sessantasettesima edizione del Festival dei Due Mondi, che ha alzato il sipario venerdì 28 giugno e che chiuderà domenica 14 luglio. Grazie al prezioso sostegno di partner come Intesa Sanpaolo, Premium Supporter dell’iniziativa, in 17 giorni e in 20 sedi differenti il Festival presenta più di 60 spettacoli tra Opera, Musica, Danza e Teatro, Performance e installazioni artistiche, coinvolgendo 30 compagnie internazionali per un totale di oltre 600 artisti provenienti da 20 paesi.  Spoleto, inoltre, fa parte della “Fascia olivata Assisi-Spoleto”, un paesaggio pedemontano appenninico di oltre 40 chilometri dove borghi, santuari, basiliche, opere d’arte e monumenti di ogni genere costituiscono un patrimonio unico ed irripetibile che coinvolge i sei comuni della provincia di Perugia: Assisi, Spello, Foligno, Trevi, Campello sul Clitunno e, appunto, Spoleto.  Questo ambiente, così suggestivo, ricco di bellezza e di spiritualità, ha ispirato Francesco Saverio Nardi Regoli nella fondazione della start up “Pacomio", una società benefit costituita per l'ideazione e la produzione di contenuti multimediali per mezzo dei quali si intende raccontare e valorizzare il patrimonio storico artistico e culturale, con l’obiettivo di rigenerare quei luoghi abbandonati o in stato di degrado.  Alle porte del Giubileo 2025 “Pellegrini di speranza”, e nascendo nella città del Festival dei Due Mondi, Pacomio si propone come un ponte tra arte ed impresa, collegando i cuori e le menti nella nuova economia di Papa Francesco.

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00:00We are in the city of Spoleto, in a symbolically extraordinary place.

00:11The name Spoleto derives, in fact, from Spaolitos, between two stones, the stone of Mount Luke and the stone of the Colle Sant'Elia.

00:20For centuries, a hermetic movement has developed that followed a rule,

00:24a rule that Saint Isaac wrote at the same time as the rule that Saint Benedict wrote.

00:33We are in a place that, since the Roman era, was a sacred place,

00:37which in the Christian era was colonized, let's say, by some monks who came even from Syria, hermits,

00:43and these hermits brought here this hermetic lifestyle, but also a bit of life together,

00:49which then infected both Benedict and Saint Francis.

00:52So Francis came here to do what? To retire, following a small rule that he had written for the brothers who wanted to go and live in a hermitage,

01:00in which some brothers, two perhaps, acted as mothers, and he or others, at that time, acted as sons, he says,

01:08that is, they only dedicated themselves to prayer, guarded by these brothers who took care of giving them food, of guarding the silence.

01:16This is why the start-up Pacomio was born,

01:20telling, from its name, the first saint in the history, Saint Pacomio, who wrote a rule,

01:26the need for beauty that humanity has today.

01:29And this place, in fact, in addition to being between two stones, has the main stone,

01:33the one that the Spoletini have kindly called the Pope's seat, a natural seat,

01:38simply by sitting down you can admire the Church of San Pietro, in addition to the bridge of the towers, clearly,

01:44and behind it the only road that still leads to Rome today.

01:49We are in one of the most significant places for us brothers,

01:53here inside the complex of the Basilica of the Holy Convent of Assisi.

01:57Here we are in the chapel, today called Fratellia, it was the ancient convent of the brothers,

02:03the oldest part dating back to 1300.

02:06The basilica is a jewel of art, we know it,

02:10and in my opinion it fits wonderfully into the place, into the natural space.

02:18We welcome many pilgrims, many visitors, people who come above all to enjoy the beauty of art,

02:26many others because here they find the spirit of Francesco, they find his body,

02:32so there are really many to come and we do our best to welcome them

02:38and to show in some way the welcome that Francesco would have reserved for them.

02:56The chapel of Sant'Anna is what remains of the ancient left transept of the cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Spoleto.

03:04The chapel was named after the insertion of the new transept, the so-called San Ponziano transept,

03:11and currently, after a series of rediscoveries in the 19th century and restorations,

03:18it has these two niches behind me and another niche where there are several historical stratifications

03:25because inside all the niches were dedicated to the noble families,

03:30so each family went to add frescoes on frescoes and in the end they stamped the previous niches.

03:38We are in the monastery of the Abbey of Sassovivo, we do not know if Francesco passed here,

03:56certainly the Abbey was born in 1087, so it was certainly a place already known at that time,

04:06in the centuries there was a decline of this Abbey, it was abandoned from the end of 1700,

04:12encumbered by the goods of the Italian state and then auctioned.

04:17Since 1979 there is our very small community, we are the little brothers of Jesus Caritas,

04:23a community that is inspired by Saint Charles de Foucault and that lives the monastic life in the service of the local church.

04:37The city welcomes great events, it was chosen by Maestro Giancarlo Menotti about 66 years ago

04:51as the seat of the Festival of the Two Worlds, a unique festival in its kind

04:56because it is a collection of all the arts of the show.

05:00This project still continues today after 66 years, other artistic directors succeeded Maestro Menotti,

05:08but the spirit, the intention and the initial idea of the Maestro still survives today

05:15and perhaps it is also the reason why, after all these years,

05:20Spoleto still offers great opportunities to many artists, both emerging and non-emerging, for 15-20 days.

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