William Struhs News Today

With a packed roster from music to theater, here’s your 2023 Fall Arts Preview for everything you need to see in Philly this season.

The opera of this year’s Spoleto Festival USA is “Vanessa,” an existential drama that follows its titular character through a harrowing journey of love, longing and loss. It’s historically important to the festival, written by Samuel Barber with a libretto by his partner, Gian Carlo Menotti, the founder of Spoleto.