August 2 at 21.15 the International Opera Oscar are awarded at Gran Teatro Giacomo Puccini in Torre del Lago .
The prize are awarded for the following cathegories:: Tenore, Soprano, Mezzosoprano, Baritono, Basso, Conductor, Director and Scene Disegner. Read the programme: http://www.puccinifestival.it/website/ita/livello1.asp?area=2&ID1=46
Details:
by car: Genova -Livorno motorway exit Viareggio or Pisa Nord. From Viareggio take the highway southwards (Pisa direction); from Pisa Nord exit take the highway northwards (Viareggio direction). Leave the highway in Torre del Lago and follow the signs for “Festival Pucciniano”
by train: Viareggio or Pisa station
by plane: Pisa Galileo Galilei International Airport, Florence-Peretola Airport
Fondazione Festival Pucciniano
Via delle Torbiere, s.n.c
55049 Torre del Lago Puccini (LU)
tel. (+39) 0584 350567
fax (+39) 0584 341657
e-mail: affarigenerali@puccinifestival.it
Press Office
tel. (+39) 0584 353304 , (+39) 0584 353322
fax (+39) 0584 341657
e-mail: press@puccinifestival.it
Tickets
Via delle Torbiere,s.n.c.
55048 Torre del Lago Puccini (LU)
tel. (+39) 0584 359322
fax (+39) 0584 350277
e-mail: ticketoffice@puccinifestival.it
Fondazione Festival Pucciniano
In November 1924 while out walking in Torre del Lago, Giacomo Puccini expressed his wish to listen to one of his operas under the open skies to Giovacchino Forzano, director, comedy writer, and librettist for Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. Six years later, after the disappearance of the musician, his wish came true thank to the hard work of the same Forzano and Pietro Mascagni, Puccini’s friend and appraiser.
On the 24th August of 1930, the opera La Boheme took place on a provisional stage supported by piles on the lake in front of the composer’s house. Forzano was the director while Mascagni was responsible for conducting the orchestra.
In 1966 the open-air theatre was moved to the drained land north of the little port in Torre del Lago, where the structure, known as the “Teatro dei Quattromila”,today hosts the festival.
This festival, over its seventy or more years history, has witnessed the most illustrious performers in the opera world as well as great dance displays including performers of an extremely high standard such as Rudolf Nurayev, Carla Fracci and George Iancu.
Recently, the Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, in collaboration with Regione Toscana, the Provincia di Lucca, the Comune di Viareggio, the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio, have commited themselves to building a technical set in the Cittadella Carnevale of Viareggio. Here, training and specialist courses concerning the technical professions involved in the theatre and show world will take place.