Mascagni, himself a composer, musician and director, went on to write several operas, of which Cavalleria Rusticana is the best known. In his student days, Mascagni had shared bohemian lodgings with Puccini in Milan. "I always go out walking in front of my house, and then in my boat I go hunting snipes.But once I would like to go out and listen to an opera of mine in the open air." The first Puccini opera performed at Torre del Lago was La Bohème, organized in 1930 by Forzano and Pietro Mascagni. Giovacchino Forzano, the librettist and first stage director for Turandot, loved to remember what Puccini had told him before leaving for the Brussels clinic, where he died shortly afterwards. The Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago was created in 1930, in accordance with the Maestro's wishes.
The Festival welcomes about 40,000 spectators every year to its open-air theatre, just a stone's throw from the Villa Puccini, where the composer lived, worked and is buried. Torre del Lago Puccini, home of the Puccini Festival, is situated 4 kilometres from the magnificent beaches of Viareggio on the Tuscan Riviera, and 18 kilometres from the ancient city of Lucca. Ritorna all'elenco degli articoli della sezione Puccini Festival
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