2010 Spoleto embraces renovated SC theater
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Spoleto Festival USA will celebrate the reopening of a nearly 300-year old theater with a production that was the first opera performed in the American colonies.
Charleston’s Dock Street Theatre should be ready to open by the time the two-week festival begins May 28 after three years of renovations. The original theater on the site opened in 1736.
The organizers of the 34th annual arts festival in South Carolina plan several high profile evens for the restored facility, including a new production of the 18th century English ballad opera “Flora.”
The show became the first opera performed in the colonies in Charleston in 1735. It was so well received that another showing was performed the next year as one of the first shows at the Dock Street Theatre.
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