The Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago is the only Festival in the world fully dedicated to the composer Giacomo Puccini. It takes place every summer during the months of July and August, in the very places that inspired Maestro Puccini’s immortal melodies.
The Festival came into being in 1930 and over the years has become an increasingly prestigious event, which every year attracts tens of thousands of spectators from all over the world.
At the Puccini Festival, you can appreciate the great opera stars, under the direction of some of the most important conductors, and admire the extraordinary set designs of Puccini’s operas such as Madama Butterfly, Turandot, La Bohème, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, executed by famous directors. The Great Open Air Theatre with 3,400 seats, dedicated to Maestro Puccini, opens onto the picturesque Massaciuccoli Lake and is surrounded by a park of extraordinary charm that houses works of art by great contemporary sculptors such as Pietro Cascella, Jean-Michel Folon and Kan Yasuda, to name some. Just a few steps away is the house where the Maestero lived and composed most of his masterpeaces.
The novelty of the 2016 billboard is represented by a double performance of the opera Turandot by composer Ferruccio Busoni, also native from Tuscany and born in Empoli in 1886. Just like Puccini he was fascinated by Carlo Gozzi's fairy tale and composed, anticipating Puccini, an opera on the subject based on an own libretto.
For years, the opera festival is accompanied by a program side events, called "Pucciniano Off", a container of pop music and classic music concerts, dance, musical and art exhibitions, which enrich both the premises of the theatre and its park. Among the top shows this year is back the appreciated musical Notre Dame de Paris and the concert by the pianist and conductor Ezio Bosso, for the first time in Torre del Lago Puccini.
62° PUCCINI FESTIVAL – Pucciniano Off
Viareggio, Fraz. Torre del Lago Puccini
Open Air Theatre Puccini, via delle Torbiere
2016 July 14 / August 24 , h. 21:15, (*) h. 21:30
The program:
Pucciniano Off
Thursday, July 14
Concert by the Band of Guardia di Finanza – On the occasion of the nietieth anniversary from the foundation of the Banda, a prestigious band that has performed in many places.
Free admission.
Free admission.
Monday, August 8
Giacomo Puccini, oltre la passione – Tribute ballet to Giacomo Puccini with the company Emox Balletto directed by the choreographer Beatrice Paoleschi.
Tickets: 18,00 €.
Tickets: 18,00 €.
From Monday, August 15 to Friday 19
Notre Dame de Paris – It is back in Torre del Lago the musical that has enchanted and amazed millions of spectators, with the original cast: Giò di Tonno (The hunchback of Notre Dame), Matteo Setti the poet Gringoire), Vittorio Matteucci who will interpret the archdeacon Frollo, Lola Ponce, in Esmeralda and Graziano Galatone in the role of captain Febo. Music by Riccardo Cocciante.
Tickets: 31,00 € / 80,00 €.
Tickets: 31,00 € / 80,00 €.
Tuesday, August 23 (*)
Concert by Gigi D'Alessio – Malaterra World Tour. A concert in which the singer and songwriter will propose a repertoire of unpublished songs and of classic Neapolitan arias.
Tickets: 30,00 € / 50,00 €
Tickets: 30,00 € / 50,00 €
Wednesday, August 24
Concert by Ezio Bosso (*) – The pianist and internationally known conductor will be for the first time on the Puccini stage with a concert that makes him the protagonist of a tour across Italy.
Tickets: 26,00 € / 46,00 €.
Tickets: 26,00 € / 46,00 €.
62° PUCCINI FESTIVAL – Pucciniano Off
Viareggio, Fraz. Torre del Lago Puccini
Open Air Theatre Puccini, via delle Torbiere
2016 July 14 / August 24 , h. 21:15, (*) h. 21:30
Information:
District:
Versilia
Municipality:
Viareggio
Event type:
music|cinema