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Cavalli's Opera Brought to Life 350 Years After Its Last Performance

Nigel Redden, General Director of Spoleto USA
Peter Frank Edwards

  Francesco Cavalli’s opera Veremonda, l’amazzone di Aragona is tangled with passionate love stories and comical mistaken identities. This season, a new performance edition commissioned by Spoleto Festival USA makes its debut, created and conducted by early music specialist Aaron Carpenè and performed by members of New York Baroque Incorporated. As Spoleto USA's General Director Nigel Redden tells Miles Hoffman, this is the first performance of Veremonda in 350 years.

Jeanette Guinn is a professor in the Arts Management Program in College of Charleston’s School of the Arts and is pleased to have former students working in the US, Europe and Australia. After interning at the South Carolina Arts Commission during graduate school, Jeanette spent 25 great years working as an arts manager.