The Festival of 2 Worlds, takes place every year between late June and mid-July in the heart of Umbria. After that in 1958 Gian Carlo Menotti it inaugurates the first edition of the Spoleto Festival year after year becomes the center of great interest to dance, and lyrical prose. The fact that the Maestro Menotti chooses personally the artists both among the most successful professionals in the industry as among the most promising young talents, has made time in the Festival dei due Mondi an inexhaustible source of great professionals from the entertainment world. The Spoleto Festival in 2009, under the artistic direction of Francis Menotti, is now a worldwide attraction, which gives an 'image and international reputation to the city of Umbria, we must therefore all the more reason to remember the period in which the Italo-American composer, since 1956, is looking for an Italian citizen who had the ability and characteristics to host the music festival that wants to achieve. The artist chose Spoleto, it is said as an alternative to Todi, convinced by the scenic spaces available: the seventeenth-century theater Caio Melisso (then used as a cinema and the perfect sound was recovered at the expense of the composer), the big new theater nineteenth, the Roman theater and outdoor spaces of great charm, like the Piazza del Duomo, which are always set up the closing concerts of the Festival dei due Mondi. After the presentation in 1958 of Verdi's Macbeth, directed by Thomas Schippers, directed by Luchino Visconti, Spoleto is applauded as the new Italian Salzburg, and in subsequent years the participation at the Festival dei due Mondi in characters such as, for name a few, Wally Toscanini, Franco Zeffirelli, Patroni Griffi, Mario Soldati, Dino Buzzati, Indro Montanelli, Pablo Neruda, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Salvatore Quasimodo, Ezra Pound, Eugenj Evtuschenko, Luca Ronconi, Al Pacino and Mariangela Melato.