Menotti and the Spoleto Festivals

In 1986 Pascoe designed a Royal Opera House production of Amahl and the Night Visitors at Sadler’s Wells to mark Menotti’s 75th birthday. He was later invited by the composer to create Platée for Spoleto USA. Many other productions followed, including in 2007 The Medium at Monte Carlo, Monaco. In 2011 he was commissioned by Spoleto USA’s General Director, Nigel Redden, to create a new production of the same work to mark the centenary of Menotti’s birth.

In 2006, Pascoe directed and designed a ground-breaking production of Vivaldi’s Ercole su’l Termodonte* at Spoleto Italy, with the baroque specialist Alan Curtis conducting. The following year, the film version was chosen as ‘DVD of the Year’ in Musica e Dischi and received worldwide acclaim. The same year, also for Spoleto Italy, he directed and designed a new and highly successful production of Handel’s Ariodante,* again with Curtis conducting.

*Available on DVD