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Spoleto Smash: A resounding box office distinguished the 14th annual Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C., over the weekend. The specter of Hurricane Hugo, which inflicted $5.9 billion in damage last September, helped promote the arts festival. More than $1.6 million in tickets were sold, topping last year’s record of $1.46 million. Highlights of the 17-day festival included the five-hour Wagner opera “Parsifal,” directed by composer Gian Carlo Menotti, and the premiere of “The Hydrogen Jukebox”--a collaboration between composer Philip Glass, poet Allen Ginsberg and visual artist Jerome Sirlin.