Puccini Festival

The Puccini Festival has been an annual event since since 1954, the place where the musical composer Giacomo Puccini spent most of his life in Torre del Lago.

This small and pretty town is located between Lake Massaciuccoli and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the municipality of Viareggio, on the Tuscan coast,  approximately 18 km from Lucca and Pisa.

Each year the Festival welcomes 40,000 people in its recently renewed open-air theater. It is an intense and unique experience. The theatre is surrounded by the lake and the moon. A short walk from the wood and the Villa Mausoleo, where Giacomo Puccini lived and worked.

The lake and its surroundings were strongly loved by Puccini, who used to find peace here, sharing also his life whit the villagers and the community of resident avant-garde artist at the beginning of the last century.

The Girl of The Golden West is special production for the Centenary, celebrated by a new scenography made in the program Scolpire l’Opera (Sculpting the Opera) by Franco Adami.

Fanciulla del West will be on July 16 and 23rd and August 7th.

Madama Butterfly (Arnaldo Pomodoro scenographies) will be on July 17 – 1, 14, 22 August

Tosca, the magic tradition Puccini on 14, 30 July – 8, 13, 21 August

Turandot on July (Pietro Cascella scenographies) 31 – 6, 12, 20 August