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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,UK postal service,British letter post,universal postal service,mail reliability debate,Ofcom regulation,Daniel Kretinsky takeover,privatised public utility,declining letter volumes,cost saving programme,delivery performance failures,consumer concern,rural communities,elderly residents,vulnerable customers,business correspondence delays,first class pressure,stamp price increases,postal workers,Communication Workers Union,national infrastructure,leaflet,info,heritage,postbox,communication notice,service modernisation,operational restructuring,postal,service,communication,class,delivery,information,letter,mail,post,public
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F1P49X - Royal Mail customer holds a bright red information leaflet headed Small changes for more dependable deliveries in front of a traditional British pillar box. The close-up outdoor image records the nationwide restructuring of the United Kingdom's letter service, with the leaflet explaining a reduced delivery pattern for Second Class and other non-First Class mail. Under the revised model, these letters are delivered on alternate weekdays from Monday to Friday rather than six days a week, while Saturday delivery is withdrawn. Royal Mail continues to state an aim of delivering Second Class items within three weekdays, and First Class letters remain scheduled six days a week. Parcels are unaffected.
The reform follows changes approved by postal regulator Ofcom after a long decline in letter volumes and debate over the financial sustainability of the Universal Service Obligation. Royal Mail presents the measure as a way to create a more reliable and sustainable service, supported by investment in operations. Critics, however, regard fewer rounds as a service cut and question whether reducing delivery frequency can genuinely improve dependability after years of missed performance targets.
The issue matters because households still depend on post for hospital appointments, benefit information, legal documents, bank correspondence, bills and official notices. Older people, disabled residents, rural communities and customers with limited digital access may be disproportionately affected. Businesses and public bodies may also feel pressure to use more expensive First Class postage for urgent correspondence.
The branded leaflet, QR code, hand and defocused red postbox create a visual illustration of changing everyday infrastructure. It captures the tension between modernisation, falling mail volumes, cost reduction and the continuing expectation that a privatised Royal Mail, now controlled by EP Group, should provide a dependable nationwide postal service.
England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F1P4A8 - Royal Mail information leaflet headed 2nd Class Mail Is Changing is held in front of a traditional red British pillar box in warm outdoor sunlight. Its promise to deliver a better all-round service accompanies a major reduction in the frequency of routine Second Class letter deliveries, creating a striking image of the tension between corporate messaging and public concern about declining postal provision.
Second Class letters and bulk business mail are moving to delivery on alternate weekdays from Monday to Friday, rather than six days each week, with routine Saturday delivery removed. Royal Mail says letters should continue to arrive within three working days and argues that restructuring is necessary as letter volumes decline and operating costs rise.
Critics describe the change more bluntly as a service cut. They question how fewer rounds can constitute an improvement when Royal Mail has repeatedly missed regulated delivery targets and customers already report late hospital appointments, delayed NHS correspondence, court documents, bills, benefit decisions, birthday cards and other important letters arriving after they are needed.
The issue has wider significance for elderly people, rural households, digitally excluded residents and small businesses that remain dependent on physical post. Postal workers and unions have also raised concerns about route reductions, workload pressure, job losses and the operational prioritisation of parcels over letters.
The changes follow the acquisition of Royal Mail's parent company, International Distribution Services, by Daniel Kretinsky's EP Group, placing the historic postal operator under foreign ownership. That takeover has intensified debate about privatisation, commercial cost cutting, regulatory accountability and the protection of a nationwide public service.
Supporters of reform argue that the one-price-goes-anywhere universal network cannot remain sustainable without adapting to reduced demand
The address is 16 Lindi Avenue, Grappenhall, Warrington, WA4 2SJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RAJ36Y - Royal Mail to be investigated for missed delivery targets
Royal Mail is facing an investigation by the industry watchdog after it failed to meet its delivery targets over the past year.
Ofcom said it would consider whether any exceptional events explained why Royal Mail fell short.
But if there were no satisfactory explanation, the regulator said it would consider imposing a fine.
The postal service delivered only 73.7% of First Class mail within a day - far short of the 93% target.
Ofcom said the impact of Covid was no longer an excuse for poor delivery performance.
If Royal Mail is fined, it would be its second penalty since 2019 when it paid out £1.5m for failing to deliver first class letters on time.
A Quality of Service report from Royal Mail also showed it delivered only 90.7% of second class mail within three days, below a target of 98.5%.
A spokesperson for Royal Mail said it was disappointed with its performance, adding: We will participate fully with any Ofcom's investigation.
Ofcom takes quality of service very seriously, the regulator said. In deciding whether the company is in breach of its obligations, we will consider if there were any exceptional events - beyond the company's control - that may have explained why it missed its targets.If it does not provide a satisfactory explanation and we determine that Royal Mail has failed to comply with its obligations, we may consider whether to impose a financial penalty, it said.
On Friday, Royal Mail's chief executive Simon Thompson announced that he would leave, meaning the company will soon be searching for its third boss in five years.
Royal Mail said its services had been affected by 18 days of strike action and that high levels of staff absence continued to hamper operations.
It said it hoped an agreement reached last month with Communication Workers Union (CWU) would resolve the matter and allow it to rapidly improve its services.
Oxford Road, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PHNGM2 - Bacharach (also known as Bacharach am Rhein) is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds.
The original name Baccaracus suggests a Celtic origin. Above the town stands Stahleck Castle (Burg Stahleck), now a youth hostel
The town lies in the Rhine Gorge, 48 km south of Koblenz.
Bacharach is divided into several Ortsteile. The outlying centre of Steeg lies in the Steeg Valley (Steeger Tal) off to the side, away from the Rhine. This glen lies between Medenscheid and Neurath to the south and Henschhausen to the north on the heights
In the early 11th century, Bacharach had its first documentary mention. It may have been that as early as the 7th century, the kingly domain passed into Archbishop of Cologne Kunibert's ownership
pointing to this is a Kunibertskapelle (chapel) on the spot where now stands the Wernerkapelle.
Today Bacharach thrives on tourism and wine from Bacharach is still enjoying international popularity. Not to be overlooked, however, are problems arising from a shrinking population, itself brought about by a lack of prospects.
Bacharach, Bacharach am Rhein, Mainz-Bingen region, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 55422
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PHNGMD - Bacharach (also known as Bacharach am Rhein) is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds.
The original name Baccaracus suggests a Celtic origin. Above the town stands Stahleck Castle (Burg Stahleck), now a youth hostel
The town lies in the Rhine Gorge, 48 km south of Koblenz.
Bacharach is divided into several Ortsteile. The outlying centre of Steeg lies in the Steeg Valley (Steeger Tal) off to the side, away from the Rhine. This glen lies between Medenscheid and Neurath to the south and Henschhausen to the north on the heights
In the early 11th century, Bacharach had its first documentary mention. It may have been that as early as the 7th century, the kingly domain passed into Archbishop of Cologne Kunibert's ownership
pointing to this is a Kunibertskapelle (chapel) on the spot where now stands the Wernerkapelle.
Today Bacharach thrives on tourism and wine from Bacharach is still enjoying international popularity. Not to be overlooked, however, are problems arising from a shrinking population, itself brought about by a lack of prospects.
Bacharach, Bacharach am Rhein, Mainz-Bingen region, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 55422
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KG7YAR - How does Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing work?
The dynamic-pricing system has been used in the United Kingdom for recent sales of tickets to Harry Styles, Coldplay, and Blackpink gigs.
A new Ticketmaster pricing system that alters the price of tickets based on demand is being criticised by fans and industry experts.
The dynamic-pricing system has been used in the United Kingdom for recent sales of tickets to Harry Styles, Coldplay, and Blackpink gigs.
It's regularly employed in the United States, where resale is a lot bigger, and touting is much more prevalent, reports the BBC.
Ticketmaster has now said that it is being used in order to try to stop touts, and to give more money back to artists.
Here's everything you need to know about the system, and how it works.
How does Ticketmaster's new demand-based pricing system work?
On the Ticketmaster page for Harry Styles's tour, a notice explains how its new demand-based system works.
It reads: These tickets vary in price driven by demand from fans, similar to airline tickets and hotel rooms.
We give fans an opportunity to safely buy official tickets for the events they love, right up to the date of the show.
This new pricing system means that Ticketmaster does not publicise ticket costs ahead of time, instead, they charge constantly, based on the demand for tickets
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3J77B - Ddocumentary stock photograph shows a red Royal Mail postal delivery van parked in a terraced residential street in Stockton Heath, South Warrington, Cheshire. The image captures the familiar Royal Mail livery on a small delivery vehicle beside brick terraced houses, front doors, pavement kerbs and a visible estate agent sold board, making it useful for editorial features on post, parcels, doorstep delivery, neighbourhood services, housing streets and everyday public service infrastructure. It also has strong current relevance for stories about Royal Mail ownership, postal reform, delivery performance and public concern about worsening service standards. Royal Mail's parent company, International Distribution Services, was taken over by EP Group, controlled by Czech billionaire Daniel KÅ™etÃnský, after a £3.6 billion deal that completed in 2025. The change brought renewed scrutiny of the future of the universal postal service, letter deliveries, parcel prioritisation and the balance between public service obligations and commercial logistics. Ofcom has repeatedly reported that Royal Mail missed key quality of service targets, including first class and second class delivery standards, and in 2026 opened a further investigation after first class delivery performance again fell below the regulatory target. The House of Commons Library has also summarised Royal Mail's poor recent performance against Ofcom targets, including first class mail delivered next working day and second class mail delivered within three working days. This local street scene can therefore illustrate wider national themes: delayed post, changes to delivery models, privatisation, foreign ownership, last-mile logistics, post for older or digitally excluded residents, small parcels from online shopping, regulated utilities, consumer frustration and the future of letter delivery. The overcast daylight, ordinary terraced housing and parked van give the picture a plain, credible editorial quality rathe
Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 6NW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XN31 - Royal Mail's talking postboxes are back for Christmas. Four postboxes have been spruced up in Christmas trim, with elves ready to respond once a letter or card is posted.
The elves say things like Call your mother, Eat more vegetables, If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you, The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, and Send help.
The four postboxes are located in Greenwich, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast, and will be in place for the entire festive season.
(According to Royal Mail, the postboxes respond to letters being posted with the sounds of elves hard at work, not fomenting a workers' revolution.)
Royal Mile, Edinburgh , Scotland, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BT4 - This Post Office in Taunton was built in 1911 in the neo-Georgian style (red brick with stone dressings on the upper floors, stone on the ground floor) then popular for Post Offices. I have noticed before how this style was popular in the early-20th century
Former Post Office, 38 North St, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK, TA1 1AB
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Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
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Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
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Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
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Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
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Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EJY -
Canada
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EK0 -
Canada
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Canada
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Canada
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EM1 -
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EM5 -
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EMD -
Canada
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Canada
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EMH -
Canada
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Canada
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9EMP -
Canada
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Italy
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Australia
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Great Britain, UK
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PF573R -
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PF577W -
Canberra ACT, Australia
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 1588556135 - 'View this whole set here. If you do Twitter add me here.
Adding up some subsets of its divisors (e.g., 1, 4, 5, 10, 20 and 40) gives 80, hence 80 is a semiperfect number.
Eighty is the standard TCP/IP port number for HTTP connections. Old MSDOS displays used to have 80 characters per line, in computing, derived from the number of columns in IBM cards.
According to Exodus 7:7, Moses was 80 years old when he initially spoke to Pharaoh on behalf of his people. Today, 80 years of age is the upper age limit for cardinals to vote in papal elections. Also, sayings from Islamic Prophet Muhammad, record that the prophet Abraham was circumcised when he was 80 years old.
Around the World in Eighty Days, by French writer Jules Verne, is the classic victorian book of adventure.
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - tone@Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk',
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DN6MP9 -
England, Great Britain , UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 6159147798 - 'Siouxsie and the Banshees - Metal Postcard Mittageisen - Play this track here.
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'Mittageisen' is a single by the English band Siouxsie and the Banshees. Originally appearing on the band's 1978 debut album The Scream (an album I played to death when it first came out) as 'Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)', the track was re-recorded in 1979 with this time the lyrics sung in German.
The title 'Mittageisen' is a word play based on the German words 'Mittagessen' (literally: 'noon meal', i.e. Lunch) and Eisen ('iron'). The title was inspired by John Heartfield's photocollage Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle! ('Hurray, the Butter is Finished!'), that was also used as front cover art.
John Heartfield's photocollage was initially used on the frontpage of the 'Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung / Workers Illustrated Journal', published on 19 December 1935. Heartfield (1891\u20131968) was an early member of the Club Dada, which started 1916 as Cabaret Voltaire in Z\u00fcrich. The picture with the title 'Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle! / Hurray, the butter is finished!' shows a family who eats various pieces of metal. The trigger for it was the following quote from Hermann G\u00f6ring: 'Iron made a nation always strong, butter and lard made only the people fat.'
'Mittageisen' was composed by Banshees members Siouxsie Sioux, John McKay, Kenny Morris and Steven Severin, the lyrics were translated by Dave Woods.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4612952244 - 'This must be where a few polling cards (the card that identifies you as a UK votor at the polling station), ended up. A shame really as over the last 110 years or so there has been a struggle for ordinary folk including women to vote.
This shot was inspired by an article I stumbled across at WM Magazine. Not one of my usual reads I must admit, but I was intreiged by teh suggestion that women burned their bras to obtain the vote.
I am no expert on Manchester Moss Side historic icon Emmeline Pankhurst, although I know arson was one of the suffragette tactics, I have not read anything suggesting they burnt their support garments. I suspect this is more a mix up with the 1960's. As they say 'If you remember the swinging 60's, you probably wern't there!'.
(2010 week 17)
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4557666253 - 'The stamps of King George V were innovative from the very first. The first issue made was of the \u00bdd and 1d values, which were in the same colours as used in the previous reign (green and dark red). Although the main design feature remained the same \u2013 a central ellipse for the portrait, an ornamental frame, value tablet at the base and a crown at the top \u2013 a three quarter portrait was used for the first time. Subsequent designs reverted to the standard profile however.
Seeing a franked post card like this always make me consider who might have posted it, who they posted it to (and why they were in Stockport). A mystery from around 1912 we will never solve.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4181781153 - 'No ones like doing it, but we all have to catch the Royal Mails last Christmas post. Everyone who receives a card from me gets a small added extra.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HD3T - Stamps of George V were innovative from the very first. The first issue made was of the ½d (as shown here) and 1d values, which were in the same colours as used in the previous reign. Although the main design feature remained the same “ a central ellipse for the portrait, an ornamental frame, value tablet at the base and a crown at the top “ a three quarter portrait was used for the first time. Subsequent designs reverted to the standard profile however.
The UK's first commemorative stamps were issued for the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. The pair of large-format stamps featured a lion in an imposing stance
they were issued twice, in 1924 and then in 1925, the stamps of each year being inscribed with the year of issue.[4] A second set of commemoratives in 1929 marked the 9th Congress of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), held in London that year.
Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYMN - Photo shows Red pillar box and village sub-post office, 18 Lindi Avenue, Grappenhall Village, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK United Kingdom WA4 2SJ. The photograph is useful as a documentary record of a real place, object or public-facing scene. It can support local history, travel, social observation, news features and web articles where authentic context matters more than a polished studio image. The supplied location evidence places the subject at or near Warrington, Cheshire, Grappenhall, England, UK, WA4 2SJ, which adds value for buyers searching by town, city, region or postcode. The supplied caption gives the main editorial context
visible weather, signage and surrounding detail should be checked on upload. It should work for editorial buyers needing authentic, non-staged British or travel imagery for news, magazine, blog, local government, heritage, housing, transport, tourism, retail, public policy or social commentary use. The caption should be checked against the visible photograph before upload so that any readable signs, weather, time of day and people context are accurately reflected without overstating facts not shown in the image. The strongest sales value is the combination of named subject, real location and everyday documentary style, giving picture editors a flexible image that can sit alongside features, opinion pieces, explainers, historical retrospectives and local news. Search relevance is helped by including concise place names, visible brand or wording, functional subject terms, and wider editorial concepts such as public realm, consumer behaviour, heritage, travel, leisure and community life where they genuinely match the picture.
18 Lindi Avenue, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK WA4 2SJ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AT9E83 - The Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy, since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958. It features a vast array of concerts, opera, dance, drama, visual arts and roundtable discussions on science.
The Two Worlds in the name of the festival comes from Gian Carlo Menotti's intention to have the worlds of American and European culture facing each other in his event
this concept would then be strengthened by the fact that it was held in conjunction with its twin, the Spoleto Festival USA held annually in May/June in Charleston, South Carolina. That twinning lasted some 15 years and, after growing disputes between the Menotti family and the board of Spoleto Festival USA, in the early 1990s a separation occurred. Under Menotti's direction in 1986, a third installment in the Spoleto Festival series was held in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne's Spoleto Festival changed its name to the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts in 1990.
Following Menotti's death in 2007, changes occurred in the administration with the result that the Italian Minister of Cultural Affairs appointed a new Artistic Administrator who continues to run the Festival.
Spoleto, Italy
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