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Festival Puccini Opera and Concerts
2008 Festival Puccini is
based in Torre del Lago Puccini on the shores of Massaciuccoli
Lake, in Northern Tuscany. Torre del Lago, which belongs to the
Town of Viareggio, is about 80 km far from Florence, 25 km far
from Lucca and only 30 minutes from Pisa international airport.
Performances take place in a 3,100 seat Open-air Theatre, just a
stone’s throw from the Villa Puccini, where the composer lived,
worked and is buried.Puccini operas were first performed here in
1930 following the Maestro's wishes.
Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago is the only opera festival in
the world entirely dedicated to the works of Maestro Giacomo
Puccini.
TURANDOT
Friday 11 July; Saturday 19 July; Friday 25 July;
Sunday 3 August, Sunday 10 August, Saturday 23 August
TOSCA
Saturday 12 July; Friday 18 July; Sunday 27 July; Friday8
August; Friday 22 August
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Sunday 20 July; Saturday 26 July Saturday 2 August; Sunday 17
August
EDGAR
Saturday 9 August; Saturday 16 August
CONCERTS
Sunday 15 June Puccini IV Act
Friday 5 September Lyrical Gala
Sectors Prices
Gold 160,00Euro
First Sector 129,00 Euro
Second Sector 91,00 Euro
Third Sector 63,00 Euro
Fourth Sector 33,00 Euro
Prices 10% bookinfee included
TICKET OFFICE PUCCINI
FESTIVAL
Viale Puccini 257/A 55049 Torre del Lago Puccini, Toscana,
Italia
+39 0584 359322/ 427201 Fax +39 0584 350277 /945059
e-mail: ticketoffice@puccinifestival.it
www.puccinifestival.it
www.landofpuccini.com
Pistoia Blues Festival 2008:
11th July 2008 with artists to
be confirmed (concert beginning at 7pm); 12th July 2008 with
Andy Timmons and Deep Purple confirmed and other artists to be
confirmed (concert beginning at 7pm); 13th July 2008 with Lenny
Kravitz confirmed and other artists to be confirmed (concert
beginning at 7pm).
www.pistoiablues.com
Siena Palio Horse Race 2008:
every year on the 2nd of July and the 16th of August. -
www.ilpalio.org/
Pisa:
Piazza dei Miracoli, where art meets music
Over the last few years, the Opera della Primaziale Pisana has
made a definite shift in its institutional tasks, by aiming not
just at purely conserving the monumental group of Piazza del
Duomo but also at promoting it.
The music festivals organised by the Opera della Primaziale
Pisana, the Sacred Music Festival "Anima Mundi" and the "Music
under the Tower", can be by now considered traditional events
not only for the local citizens but also for the international
public, visiting Pisa and its amazing Cathedral Square.
Pisa and the International Sacred Music Festival "Anima Mundi"
Now in its sixth year, each one characterised by growing public
and critical consensus, the "Anima Mundi" international festival
confirms its ambition to be one of the most important events in
the sacred music scene thanks to its outstanding programme and
star-studded list of performers, hosted, during the past years,
in the awe-inspiring Cathedral dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta.
Starting from this edition the Opera della Primaziale and the
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa, with the patronage of the
City and Provincial Councils of Pisa, have entrusted the
artistic direction of the Anima Mundi Pisa Festival to the KML
Foundation and Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the coming three
seasons (2006-2008). An occasion, for the new Artistic Director,
to relive the emotions of his first tour in Italy: the
Baptistery, the Cathedral, the Monumental Cemetery, a symbolic
triptych that sums up the human being's path, from the birth to
the death.
New and unusual places will be open to the public audience: the
Monumental Cematery, for the "Momenti Spirituali" review (from
September 22nd to September 28th), will host Katia and Marielle
Labèque, Viktoria Mullova, Guido Corti and some other
performers, associated in the KML Foundation.
"Music under the Tower": great
interpreters for a small summer festival
Now in its fifth year, once again the already traditional music
event "Music under the Tower" will enlivened our summer evenings
in the charming setting of the cloister of the Vestry Board
Museum.
The event, which is increasingly targeted to the music
connoisseurs, has been a success in the past years, both in
terms of artistic standards and public appreciation, thanks to
the organisers' decision to offer a wide range of proposals.
Between June and July, for six nights, the cloister of the
Cathedral Vestry Board Museum becomes a privileged observation
post from where you can admire the beauty of the Leaning Tower.
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