Spoleto Festival in Nearby Charleston! May 27th to June12th

From May 27th to June 12th this year, Spoleto Festival USA will fill Charleston, South Carolina’s historic churches, theaters and outdoor venues with unique dance, opera, theater, symphonic, choral, and jazz performances.

Spoleto Festival USA, now in its 35th season, is internationally recognized as America’s premier performing arts festival— and it’s all only a short 90-minute drive from Plantation Resort in picturesque Charleston, South Carolina! Because of the city’s reputation as one with an impressive array of preserved historical architecture, distinctively charming venues and stunning natural beauty, the Spoleto Festival has made Charleston its home as the perfect setting for its high caliber artistic performances.

If you and your family are planning a Plantation Resort vacation for the dates above and are interested in making this wonderful event a part of your vacation, please consider the information below!

The following is a list of events for the 2011 Season (by genre):

Opera: The Magic Flute; The Medium; Émilie

Theater: The Cripple of Inishmaan; The Red Shoe, County of Kings: The Beautiful Struggle; East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Empty House

Dance: Khmeropedies I & II; Corella Ballet; Shen Wei Dance Arts; Cedric Andrieux

Music: Bank of America Chamber Music; Comparison Is Violence; Music in Time; Intermezzi; Festival Concert; 13 Most Beautiful;

Sarah Jarosz; Westminster Choir Concerts; Bela Fleck and the Original Fleckton; Choral/Orchestral Concert; Del McCoury Band

Jazz: Karrin Allyson; Ketil Bjornstad; Toninho Ferragutti; Dianne Reeves;

Willy Gonzalez & Micaela Vita; Danilo Rea; Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Musical Theater: The Gospel at Colonus

Contemporary Circus: Australia’s Circa

Special Events: Spoleto Auction; Opening Night Fete

Visual Arts: Paolo Venture: Winter Stories

Artist Talks: “Conversations with”; “Spoleto at the Avery”

To review shows/dates and purchase tickets online for this season’s performances, please go to: www.spoletousa.org/current-season/buy-tickets

 

To contact the Box Office by phone, please call: 1-843-579-3100.

Hope to see you soon at Plantation Resort and Spoleto Festival USA!