festival pucciniano in Viareggio

Tower of the Lago, center of the Festival Puccini, is situated between the Lago of Massaciuccoli and the Tyrrhenian Mar, to 4 km from the spiagge of Viareggio, on the from Tuscany shoreline, to 18 km from Lucca and as many from Pisa. Every year the Festival accommodates 40,000 spectators in its Theatre to the Open, to little steps from the Mausoleo Villa (photo over) where master Giacomo Puccini lived and worked and where now, in one small he knows transformed it in nail head, are guarded its empty ones. Tower of the Lago is a goal ambita for gets passionate you to it of lyric music and for the tourists who wish to more visit the places of the appreciated composer of the twentieth century. The Festival di Torre of the Lago nacque in 1930 for wanting of the Master "... I go always here and then with the boat I go to hunt the snipes... But once I would want to go listening to one my work to the open here... " (Puccini to Giovacchino Forzano in November 1924, before leaving for the clinical one of Brussels where little after it died). An author de the Bohème and of Madama Butterfly, "the last great poet of the melodramma Italian, the greatest operista that Italy and the world have had in our century" (R.Vlad), expressed therefore desire to make to live again its creatures in the incredible offered natural stage from the Lago of Massaciuccoli. Those words remained therefore carved in the heart of Force (director, commediografo and librettista of Angelic Suor and Gianni Schicchi) that after the determined passing of the Master to realize such dream. In 1930, with to Peter Mascagni, companion of studies and room of the Puccini young person in the years of the Conservatory, They force gave beginning to the realization of the first rappresentazioni of the pucciniani capolavori in river to the lago, in front of the house of the Master. 24 August 1930, in a temporary theatre with the stage constructed on stilt houses fixtures in the lago of forehead to the Villa, the "Wagon of Lyric Tespi", a company of itinerante work, represented the Bohème for the direction of Forces with directed Pampanini Rosette, Carosio Daisy, Angel Minghetti and Luigi Montesano from Mascagni. In 1931 the "Wagon of Lyric Tespi" newly returned to Tower of the Lago with the Bohème interpreted from Favourite Gigli and Adelaide Saraceni, and Madama Butterfly with Rosette Pampanini and Angelo Michetti, marking therefore the more famous and loved Lyric beginning of one of the Festival from the public. In 1966 the Theatre to the Open came moved on the land cleared situated to north of the porticciolo of Tower of the Lago. Here it is remained with the construction of a structure that boasts the evocative background of the Lago of impreziosito Massaciuccoli shining tremulo of the nocturnal lights of the small villages situates to you on the opposite side, natural scene to the preparations that every year are alternated on the great stage. During beyond seventy history years on the stage of the Festival they are alternated the more illustrious names and applauds you of lyric the world-wide one, between which they remember Tito Hunchback, than it toed make one's debut here like director in Tosca; the great Mario of the Monaco that chose just the stage of Tower of the Lago for giving to the goodbye to the career with one memorable interpretation of the Tabarro; Giuseppe Di Stefano, Luciano Pavarotti, Placid Domingo, Josè Carreras (insignito in 1997, the within of the concert of closing, the Prize Puccini), Corelli Franc, Giuseppe Giacomini, Giacomo Aragall and Luis Lima. Until arriving to Josè Cure, whose participation to the Festival Puccini 1995 in the role of Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca marked the beginning of its extraordinary career. Illustrious Hunchback baritones of the bore of Tito, Ingvar Wixell, Sherill Milnes, Rolando Panerai and Giuseppe Taddei have interpreted the role of Scarpia, Jack Orange-colored, Gianni Schicchi and Lescaut and artists as Monserrat Caballé and Andrea Bocelli have been exhibited in recital on the great stage of Tower of the Lago. In the unforgettable feminine roles the interpretations of Renata Scotto, Eva Marton, Katia Ricciarelli, Raina Kabaivanska, Olivia Stapp and Ghena Dimitrova. Between the directors they detach the names of Francisco Molinari Pradelli, Mannino Franc, In Knows to you, Oliviero De Fabritiis, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Yuri Ahronovich, Gian Luigi Gelmetti, Nicholas Rescigno, Daniel Oren, Maurizio Arena, Anton Guadagno and Alberto Veronesi, puts into effect them artistic director of the Festival. They are not lacks, moreover, great shows to you of dance with star of the bore of Rudolf Nureyev, Carla Fracci and Georg Iancu. In 2000, seventieth anniversary of the brave initiative of Mascagni and Forzano, 46° the edition of the Festival has seen the putting in scene of two new productions: Madama Butterfly with the exceptional debut like scenografo of the scultore Kan Yasuda, the direction of Vivien Hewitt and the customs of Queen Schrecker, and the monumental Tosca of the centenarian, signed from Montresor Assets. In billboard also the Bohème and the rappresentazione in shape of concert of the Villas, before the work of Puccini, with Katia Ricciarelli and Josè Cure. In summer 2001, in the within of the manifestation "Italy in Japan 2001", Madama Butterfly is represented for before the time in the places in which it is acclimatized. The production of the Festival Puccini with scenografie of Kan Yasuda in fact has completed one most fortunate tournée in the theatres of Tokio, Kobe and Nakasaki, receiving 18 minuteren of applauses to the theatre Bunka Kai Kan di Tokio. In the 2002 such production it has opened the International Festival of May of Wiesbaden, in Germany, and in summer happening to Tower of the Lago with the participation of Andrea Bocelli in the role of Pinkerton has still brought back a large one. In May 2003 it has been represented to the Work House di Baltimora, in the United States, and will be newly in scene in the billboard of 49° the Festival. The new production of Turandot di Roberto Laganà Manoli, putting in scene with large succeeding in season 2001, has been represented during spring 2002 to the Canarian and Messina, in order to still return in Tower billboard of the Lago in the within of the Festival in 2002 and 2003. The Festival is carried out to little kilometers from Pietrasanta, the "Atene Small" where Michelangelo reached the marble for its works and where famous artists arrive from all the world in order to learn the only and particular technique of the craftsmen of the marble and the bronze. This vicinity has stimulated the birth of the plan "To carve the work" that gives 2000 sees prestigious artists legacies to Pietrasanta to work to the preparations of the Festival. After the Madama Butterfly di Kan Yasuda, one new production of Manon Lescaut with scenes and customs of the Polish scultore Igor Mitoraj has inaugurated 48° the Festival in 2002, and in the 2003 Festival it will introduce a new preparation de the Bohème with scenes and customs of the painter, scultore and Belgian illustratore Jean Michel Folon.