Spoleto Festival USA

For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolina’s historic theaters, churches and outdoor spaces with performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers in opera, theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral, jazz, and folk music. Now approaching its 47th season, Spoleto Festival USA is internationally recognized as America’s premier performing arts festival.

Schedule of Events:

11:00am: Bank of America Chamber Music - music

Highlighting a broad range of repertoire spanning centuries, many of the world’s chamber music luminaries perform eleven riveting programs at the historic Dock Street Theatre.

1:00pm: Bank of America Chamber Music - music

Highlighting a broad range of repertoire spanning centuries, many of the world’s chamber music luminaries perform eleven riveting programs at the historic Dock Street Theatre.

2:00pm: Gravity & Other Myths: Out of Chaos - physical theater

Australian physical theater company Gravity & Other Myths presents one of their newest works, Out of Chaos—a high-flying display of acrobatics that the troupe describes as its “boldest and most ambitious yet.”

4:00pm: Only an Octave Apart - theater

A Grammy Award-winning opera countertenor complements New York’s preeminent cabaret showstopper for a dazzling, genre-defying musical hybrid that revels in the coexistence of contrasts.

5:00pm: Wells Fargo Festival Finale featuring Tank and the Bangas - music

With a sound blending funk, rock, jazz, soul, and hip-hop, the Grammy-nominated band closes the Festival season with a celebratory bang—and fireworks—at Firefly Distillery in North Charleston.

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