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 the Lake 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.
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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 the Lake 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 theater, the Teatro dei Quattromila (so named for its seating capacity, although fewer seats were actually installed), located very close to the "Villa Museum 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 Viarregio in 1921. Along with other members of his family who died later, Puccini is...
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