Giacomo Puccini - Finestre sull'Arte

Torre del Lago, fundraiser launched to restore the Giacomo Puccini Garden

In 2024, Italy celebrated an important anniversary linked to the figure of Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 1858 - Brussels, 1924): the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. And today, as 2024 draws to a close, the Simonetta Puccini Foundation is launchi...
Read more...

Puccini's famous operas become Disney stories for the 100th anniversary of the composer's death

Panini Comics is celebrating the centenary of Giacomo Puccini 's death with a special volume collecting comic stories inspired by the works of the great Tuscan composer . In fact, on October 30, the new Topolibro will be released in conjunction with ...
Read more...

Torre del Lago presents the correspondence between Ferruccio Pagni and Giacomo Puccini

On Saturday, July 27, theAuditorium Simonetta Puccini in Torre del Lago will host the presentation of the volume Caro Ferro. Il carteggio tra Ferruccio Pagni e Giacomo Puccini nell'Archivio di Torre del Lago, edited by Francesca Degiorgio and publish...
Read more...

Torre del Lago, major new acquisitions for the Villa Museo Puccini

In Torre del Lago, the Villa Museo Puccini is enriched with new fragments of the life and work of the celebrated composer Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 1858 - Brussels, 1924). ThePuccini Archive, custodian of more than 28,500 pieces including autograph man...
Read more...

Puccini becomes a Pop icon: a design collection from 12 small sculptures

In this 2024, on the occasion of the Puccini celebrations for the centenary of the death of Maestro Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 1858 - Brussels, 1924), PucciniPop, a design collection dedicated to the maestro and his innovative works, was born. The proje...
Read more...

Giacomo Puccini? He was also a. photographer. In Lucca for the first time his photos on display

Did you know that Giacomo Puccini, in addition to being a great composer, also devoted himself to photography? The Ragghianti Foundation in Lucca, from February 16 to April 1, 2024 presents the photography exhibition dedicated precisely to the photog...
Read more...

Prato, the Textile Museum dedicates a major exhibition to Turandot with original costumes and objects

From May 22 to Nov. 21, 2021, Prato 's Museo del Tessuto will host the exhibition Turandot and the Fantastic Orient by Puccini, Chini and Caramba, a tribute that the Museo del Tessuto Foundation wanted to offer to the history of opera theater and art...
Read more...

The relationship between Giacomo Puccini and the visual arts is investigated by an exhibition in Lucca

On view from May 18 through September 18, 2018 is the exhibition Per sogni e per chimere. Giacomo Puccini and the Visual Arts, which, on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the Maestro's birth, explores that relationship between Giacomo Puccini ...
Read more...