“Puccini Days”

The Puccini Foundation, Lucca Town Council and Giglio Theatre develop and consolidate the relationship between the institutions and Giacomo Puccini with the second edition of “Puccini Days”, the festival which has become a fixed event dedicated to the great maestro.
The festival starts 13 November and brings together a large variety of musical experiences: from chamber and sacred music to improvisation and jazz.

During the festival, besides the main musical performances there are also a series of events that give the town a special and exclusive atmosphere dedicated to Puccini: guided visits to Puccini sites, small concerts in suggestive and significant locations in the life of the Maestro, conferences and meetings, events in partnership with the town’s musical Associations.

Complete programme of “The Puccini Days”

Friday 13 November
19.00 – Giglio Theatre foyer, meeting with the Madame Butterfly performers
Sunday 15 November
12pm – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price
3.30pm – Puccini Museum, “Everyone at Giacomo’s house!” (guided visit for children aged 6 to 12 –
advance booking required)
Friday 20 November
8.30pm – Giglio Theatre, Madame Butterfly – conductor Valerio Galli, director Sandro Pasqualetto,
Tuscany Orchestra and Choir

Saturday 21 November
12pm – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price
Sunday 22 November
3.30pm – Giglio Theatre, Madame Butterfly – conductor Valerio Galli, director Sandro Pasqualetto,
Tuscany Orchestra and Choir

Friday 27 November
9pm – Cinema Centrale, concert film “Jonas Kaufmann, An Evening with Puccini”

Saturday 28 November
11 – Cathedral, guided visit and organ concert – free entry (organised by Flam)
12 – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price.
21.15 – Auditorium Vincenzo da Massa Carrara, Porcari, selection from the opera Le Villi in a semi-staged concert (organised by Circolo Amici della Musica Alfredo Catalani, in partnership with Porcari Town Council) – free entry while seats last

Sunday 29 November
10.30 – Cathedral, Messa by Giacomo Puccini
12 – Puccini Museum, guided visit marking the 91th anniversary since the death of Giacomo Puccini
17 – Giglio Theatre, concert “Nobody sleeps”, conductor Marco Balderi, Orchestra and Choir – Lucca Puccini Days

Saturday 5 December
11 – Cathedral, guided visit and organ concert – free entry (by Flam)
12 – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price

Sunday 6 December
18 – Casermetta San Colombano, concert “An evening at the opera”, music by Donizetti, Verdi,
Puccini, singing class of Giovanni Dagnino (organised by the ISSM “L. Boccherini”)

Tuesday 8 December
21 – Giglio Theatre, recital Daniela Dessì, Archi all’opera quintet (first parts of the Orchestra of the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genova)

Saturday 12 December
9 – Oratorio San Giuseppe, presentation of the Arrosti family musical archive – free entry (organised by Flam)
11 – Cathedral, guided visit and organ concert – free entry (organised by Flam)
12 – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price
21 – Giglio Theatre, Mass in F major for solos, choir and orchestra by Michele Puccini, conductor
Luca Bacci, Choir of the Cappella Santa Cecilia in Lucca, Luigi Boccherini Symphony Orchestra (organised by Lucca Musical Sagra)

Sunday 13 December
11.45 – Palazzo Pretorio open gallery, concert musical Body “Giacomo Puccini” (in partnership with
Unicef)
18 – Casermetta San Colombano, concert Ottetto di fiati by the ISSM “L. Boccherini”, conductor Remo
Pieri, music by Mozart and Puccini (organised by the ISSM “L. Boccherini”)

Saturday 19 December
11 – Cathedral, guided visit and organ concert– free entry (organised by Flam)
12 – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price
17 – Auditorium del Suffragio, concert Quartet della Scala, music by Puccini, Ravel, Debussy (organised by the Lucca Musical association)

Sunday 20 December
11.45 – Palazzo Pretorio open gallery, Philharmonic concert “Giacomo Puccini” by Segromigno in Monte
(in partnership with Unicef)
12 – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price
15.30 Puccini Museum, “La bohème for small set designers” (creative workshop for children aged 7 to 11 – advance booking required)

Tuesday 22 December
10-13/15-17 – Puccini Museum, special opening with guided visit to mark the 157th birthday of the Maestro

(advance booking required)
21 – Giglio Theatre, Stefano Bollani, ensemble Bohème Jazz Club – music and improvisations by
Stefano Bollani: dedicated to Giacomo Puccini

Saturday 26 December
12 – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price
Friday 1 January
15.30 – Puccini Museum, “Hunting with Giacomo” (treasure hunt for children aged 6 to 12 –
advance booking required)

Saturday 2 January
12 – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price
Saturday 9 January
12 – Puccini Museum, guided visit included in ticket price
Sunday 10 January
17 – Giglio Theatre, recital by José Carreras, Lorenzo Bavaj (pianoforte), music by Tosti,
Leoncavallo, Puccini and repertoire of Neapolitan songs

MUSIC IN TOWN

Saturday 21 November
21 – Industrial Association Hall, Claude Hauri – violoncello, Gabriella Dolfi – pianoforte
Music by Beethoven, Rachmaninov (organised by the ISSM “L. Boccherini”)

Saturday 28 November
17 – Casermetta San Colombano, Concert for clarinet solo and family of clarinets by Tony Capula
– PREMIERE (by Cluster)

Thursday 3 December
21 – Auditorium del Suffragio, TIMELESS SAXOPHONE QUARTET music by Bach, Nyman, Monk,
Khacheh, Khalil “From Bach to Monk, passing the Sax…” (organised by the ISSM “L. Boccherini”)

Saturday 5 December
20.30 – Giglio Theatre, Il convitato di pietra by Giovanni Pacini – conductor Daniele Ferrari, director
Lorenzo Maria Mucci, Orchestra Arché, Choir Laboratorio Lirico San Nicola

Monday 7 December
21 – Giglio Theatre, Paolo Fresu & Dino Rubino; the concert is accompanied by the projection of
photographs by Pino Ninfa (curated by Photolux Festival)
Friday 11 December
21.15 – Casermetta San Colombano, concert by the Etymos Ensemble, flute, clarinet, electronics –
PREMIERE (by Cluster)

Friday 18 December
18 – Auditorium del Suffragio, Christmas Concert, Orchestra ISSM “L. Boccherini”, conductor
Gianpaolo Mazzoli (organised by the ISSM “L. Boccherini”)

Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 January
8.30pm – Giglio Theatre, Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi – conductor Ivo Lipanovic, director Lorenzo
Maria Mucci, Tuscany Orchestra, Choir CLT