Clive Barnes: Self
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Clive Barnes : Menotti is more than a composer. In Italy his talents have been to hold this festival balanced on the high wire between shiny success and dim disaster. His total energies have been devoted to keeping his festival going. In Spoleto he is a father figure, a padrone. He strides through the town as if he owned it. And in a very real sense he does. And his festival, that fragile enterprise, has always been kept clean of the disruptive influence of Italian politics, simply by this man's stature.
