Festival Puccini Torre del Lago
The Festival Puccini (Puccini Festival) is an annual summer opera festival held in July and August to present the operas of the famous Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. The Festival is located in Torre del Lago, Italy, a town located between Lago di Massaciuccoli and the Tyrrhenian Sea, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the beaches of Viareggio on the Tuscan Riviera and 18 kilometres (11 mi) from Pisa and Lucca, Puccini's birthplace.
In presenting four or five performances of up to four operatic productions each season, the Festival attracts about forty thousand spectators to its open-air theatre, the Teatro dei Quattromila (so named for its seating capacity, although 3,200 seats were actually installed), located very close to the "Villa Puccini," the house which the composer had built in 1900 and in which he lived and worked on his major operas until pollution from the lake forced him to settle in Viareggio in 1921. Along with other members of his family who died later, Puccini is buried in a small chapel inside the Villa, in a room transformed into a mausoleum after his death.
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Madama Butterfly (2004)
Madama Butterfly by G.Puccini, from Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, performed at Teatro dei Quattromila, Torre del Lago, 2004. Directed by Stefano Monti, conductor Placido Domingo, starring Fabio Armiliato, Juan Pons, Daniela Dessì, Riccardo Zanellato, Stefano La Colla, Rossana Rinaldi, Salvator...
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Tosca (2007)
Tosca by G.Puccini, from Festival G.Puccini Torre del Lago, 2007. Directed by Mario Corradi, conductor Valerio Galli, starring Riccardo Ferrari, Stefano Secco, Giorgio Surian, Fernando Ciuffo, Antonia Cifrone, Franco Boscolo, Giovanni Caramanna, Massimo La Guardia and Veio Torcigliani. Performed...
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La bohème (2007)
La bohème by G. Puccini from Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, performed at Teatro dei Quattromila, Torre del Lago, 2007. Directed by Maurizio Scaparro, conductor Stewart Robertson. Starring Norma Fantini (Mimì), Massimiliano Pisapia (Rodolfo), Gabriele Viviani (Marcello), Donata D'Annunzio Lombard...
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La rondine (2007)
La rondine by G.Puccini, from Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, 2007. Directed by Lorenzo Amato, conductor Alberto Veronesi, starring Fabio Sartori, Svetla Vassileva, Giorgio Berrugi, Andrea Patucelli, Marzio Giossi, Maya Dashuk, Fernando Ciuffo, Alessandra Meozzi, Annunziata Vestri, Emanuele Gia...
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Madama Butterfly (2007)
Madama Butterfly by G .Puccini, from Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, 2007. Directed by Stefano Vizioli, conductor Laurence Gilgore, starring Luca Salsi, Sally Wilson, Manrico Signorini, Carlo Barricelli, Elmira Veda, Annmaria Popescu and Emanuele Giannino. Performed in Italian and subtitled in E...
