Song of the Earth theme of 68th edition of Spoleto Festival

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 18 - Sixty performances starring 700 artists from 13 countries will take centre stage at the 68th edition of Spoleto's Festival of Two Worlds, Italy's oldest and most eclectic performing arts fest.
    Stars of the festival, which runs in the northern city from June 27 until July 13 will include William Kentrige, Ersan Mondtag, Robert Mappelthorpe, Clement Cogitore.
    Artistic director Monique Veaute has organized a very heterogenous and multidisciplinary program inspired by Gustav Mahler's Song of the Earth.
    Performances and concerts will feature, among others, Ersan Mondtag and the Berliner Ensamble, Alessandro Baricco, Stefano Bollani, Enrico Rava, Luca Marinelli Federico Tiezzi, Sandro Lombardi, Massimo Popolizio and Umberto Orsini, the musicians of Rome's national academy of Santa Cecilia and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    The event will open with the opera Hadrian by New York composer Rufus Wainwright from a text by Marguerite Yourcenar. (ANSA).