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2008 - 150TH ANNIVERSARY FROM THE BIRTH OF GIACOMO PUCCINI (b. LUCCA, 22nd DECEMBER 1858 - d. BRUXELLES, 29th NOVEMBER 1924)

THE "PUCCINI E LA SUA LUCCA" international festival PRESENTS A SERIES OF MORE THAN 370 MUSICAL EVENTS TO CELEBRATE THE 150TH BIRTHDAY OF THE GREATEST LUCCHESE CITIZEN OF ALL TIMES

FOR DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAMMES, PLEASE VISIT THE "EVENTS" SECTION IN THIS WEBSITE

Presentation of The first Festival dedicated to Giacomo Puccini & his music in Lucca

The 6th March 2004 is the date when the PUCCINI E LA SUA LUCCA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL officially started its activity in Lucca, a town so rich of musical tradition. Composers like Nicolao Dorati, Cristoforo Malvezzi, Gioseffo Guami, Giovanni Lorenzo Gregari, Francesco Barsanti, Francesco Geminiani, Filippo Manfredi, Luigi Boccherini, Alfredo Catalani e Giacomo Puccini. Lucca land of musicians but no one loved as Giacomo Puccini: the greatness of his music is well known all over the world.

Andrea Colombini, the artistic director of The Caledonian Academy of Tuscany, has strongly wished that the name of Giacomo Puccini was indissolubly linked to Lucca, the town where the great Maestro was born on the 22nd December 1858.

Caledonian - The first Festival dedicated to Giacomo Puccini & his music in Lucca

Since then, The Caledonian Academy of Tuscany has carried out almost 850 concerts with approx. 77,000 tickets sold and has already organised activity for the three-year period 2008/2010 with more than 1,100 concerts already scheduled online.
The “Puccini e la sua Lucca” festival is the only permanent festival in the world.
Recitals, opera selections, special concerts (“The Three Tenors”, “Puccini’s heroines” and many others): all in the most beautiful and stunning Basilica in the very core of Lucca (San Giovanni), all at the same time (concerts starts at 7:00 p.m.), all sporting great nationally and internationally renown singers and pianists. Everytime with a different cast of singers and different programmes, in order to give the audience the greatest possible spectrum of the great immeortal music of Giacomo Puccini, often flanked by the music of other great Italian operatic composers.
A great occasion to appreciate the voice of the greatest Lucchese in the world (and possibly the greatest Italian in the world…) in the town where he was born and lived, in one of the most beautiful churches of the town.

IMPORTANT: TICKET INFORMATION

Due to the great size of the venue, Tickets are ALWAYS available for each performance SEATS ARE NOT NUMBERED. Seat will be however reserved for groups of more than 20 people in special sectors of the Church. These groups will also obtain special group rates (please contact alcolombscotland@tin.it for further information)

The price of each ticket for RECITAL (concerts every day of the year) is E 15
Children under the age of 10 will be charged E 10
Students and under 23 will be charged E 10

The prices for the FULL OPERA PERFORMANCES and for the SYMPHONIC AND OPERATIC GALAS (for which seats WILL BE NUMBERED) may change accordingly.

ALL TICKETS (recitals, full opera, symphonic/operatic galas) can be:
a) booked, sending an e. mail indicating number of tickets and name of reference to the email
address: alcolombscotland@tin.it
You will in turn receive an e.mail of confirmation from our Booking Office, stating the receipt and
confirmation of your booking.
No advance payment and/or credit card guarantee is required. The tickets booked via e.mail will be then collectable at the Festival ticket office at the Church of San Giovanni in Lucca, on the same day of performance, from 6 p.m. till 7.15 p.m. In case you are unable to collect the tickets by 7.15 p.m., the booking will be automatically cancelled with no penalty whatsoever for the buyer.
VERY IMPORTANT: The tickets can be paid cash only, IN EUROS.

b) directly purchased at the Church of San Giovanni ticket office, everyday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., or/and at all the authorised selling points in Lucca (showing the Festival ticket sale advertisment). You can buy tickets for all dates of concerts, paying them cash only.
THE TICKETS BOUGHT AT THE SELLING POINTS WILL THEN BE CHARGED A 10% AS PRESALE RIGHT

The Festival artistic direction announces that changes might happen in the programme which is going to be performed night by night. All concerts and recitals in a week (from sunday to sunday) have however different programmes and different performers.
A special concert programme (complete with a short biography of Giacomo Puccini and a story of the Puccini e la sua Lucca Festival) will be available at the Church of San Giovanni - Lucca, at the Festival ticket desk, on sale from 6 p.m. on. The price of each programme is E 1.

Taking pictures and videos is allowed during all concerts and recitals provided there is no disturb to the performance or it is done while seated.
No pictures and /or videos are allowed in any form during the full Opera performances.

ALL MOBILE TELEPHONES MUST BE SWITCHED OFF BEFORE THE START OF THE PERFORMANCE.
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 4 ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO TAKE SEAT AT THE END OF THE CHURCH

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Events programm of Puccini e la sua lucca