Author: Samuele Sodini

Giacomo Puccini September 2010 Events in Lucca

Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini September 2010 Events in Lucca

TUTTI I LUNEDI’, MARTEDI’ E MERCOLEDI’ DEL MESE /EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH
SPECIAL CONCERTS
“PUCCINI AND MOZART”
(always with different performers and programmes)

TUTTI I GIOVEDI’ DEL MESE – EVERY THRUSDAY OF THE MONTH

UNA NOTTE ALL’OPERA/A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Arie e duetti dal repertorio lirico di Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Donietti, Mascagni ed altri/arias and duets from the Italian operatic repertoire

TUTTI I VENERDI’ DEL MESE – EVERY FRIDAY OF THE MONTH

MOZART & PUCCINI
Arie e duetti da/arias and duets from  LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, COSI’ FAN TUTTE, DON GIOVANNI, MADAMA BUTTERFLY, LA BOHEME, TOSCA

TUTTI I SABATO DEL MESE – EVERY SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

UNA NOTTE ALL’OPERA/A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Arie e duetti dal repertorio lirico di Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Donietti, Mascagni ed altri/arias and duets from the Italian operatic repertoire

TUTTE LE DOMENICHE DEL MESE – EVERY SUNDAY OF THE MONTH

PUCCINI E LA CANZONE TRADIZIONALE NAPOLETANA – PUCCINI & THE  NEAPOLITAN TRADITIONAL SONGS
SEPTEMBER 2010
SPECIAL OPERA PRODUCTION OF THE FESTIVAL
24th – 25th – 26th SEPTEMBER – AT 19.30
“TOSCA”
WITH SOLOISTS, CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF THE “PUCCINI E LA SUA LUCCA” FESTIVAL
conductor MASSIMO MORELLI
NEW PRODUCTION OF THE FESTIVAL
SCENES AND DIRECTION: ANDREA COLOMBINI

Tuscan marble

Tuscan marble, fireplace built in Galleni workshop

A workshop with a calling for art.
A first glance, you’d say he’s a typical Pietrasanta youngster, with is ready smile and loquacity. But truth be told, Massimo Galleni is a member of “historic” generation of the city’s craftspeople: his grandfather started the family tradition and Masimo, who has been active in the sector since 1980, opened his own marble workshop about 15 years ago.

Massimo Galleni
Via Torraccia 5, Pietrasanta – Phone: +39 0584 793527
Web-site: www.gallenimassimo.it

Italian Jewels

Italian jewels

Celebrating Beauty in Tuscany.
Timeless creations from a craftsman-jeweler, on Forte dei Marmi’s most exclusive shopping outings, Carlo’s Marchi‘s jewerly gallery is a mandatory stop.

Marchi is a jeweler who has defended and “fashion-proofed” his classical style. His selections and proposals withstand the test of time; his creation have a inner light all their own and value that goes far beyond purely material worth: rare quality made of unicity exclusivity and personality.

Carlo Marchi Gioiellere
Via Mazzini 7, Forte dei Marmi – Phone +39 0584 83844
Via S. Lucia 28, Lucca – Phone +39 0583 491346
Via Fillungo 69 Lucca – Phone +39 0583 494885

Web-site: www.gioielleriamarchicarlo.it

Yacht rental Italy

Yacht rental Italy

Allow yourself the luxury.
Beautiful dream yachts: renting Versilia’s best
A life of luxury and the chance to chenge looks at will. This is the dream that inspired Noleggio Versilia Rent Luxury, specialized in rentals of high-end vehicles and vessels.

For an “escape” to Sardinia on a splendid yacht or vacation in Versilia behind the wheel of a gleaming Ferrari, Maserati, Bentley or Lamborghini.
The agency takes care of every detail, including theft, fire damage, comprehensive, and UM/UIM coverage, a broad spectrum of short-and long-term rental formulas, and contracts of up to one year’s duration.

Noleggio Versilia Rent Luxury
Via Verdi 17 Ronchi  – Phone: +39 338 9042127
Info@noleggioversilia.com
Web-site: www.noleggioversilia.com

Events in Tuscany

Events in Tuscany

LUCCA

Lu.C.C.A Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Via della Fratta 36
Steve Mc Curry and Pietro Gilardi.
Time after Time. Giuliano Ghelli Le vie del Tempo. Otto minuti dal sole, un minuto dalla luna.
Videoart open 10.00-19.00 Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Mondays. Till 5 September.

Puccini Opera Via S. Giustina 16
Various exhibitions at the association’s head quarters.
Puccini e il cinema Posters and rawing relating to films on puccini heroines. Open 10.00-19.00 daily except  Tuesdays. Till 1 November.
Piatti di Puccini, Richard Ginori ceramics celebrating Puccini’soperas.
Puccini mai visto, memorabilia, music scores, rare photos and letters, inauguration  15 September.

VIAREGGIO

Da Fattori a Casorati
Ojetti Collection. Experts have meticulously re-assembled the collection of 19th and 20th century Italian masterpieces dispersed when the Florentine home of the writer and art critic Ugo Ojetti was turned into a hotel. At the Centro Matteucci per l’Arte Moderna, via d’Annunzio 28.
Tuesday-Saturday 15.30-19.30 Sunday 14.30-20.00 closed Mondays. Till 12 September.

Galileo Chini e la Toscana
A collection of the art nouveau master’s ceramics, paintings, stage scenery- At GAMC Modern Art gallery, Piazza Mazzini 22. Open 18.00-23.00 Tuesdays to Sundays. Monday closed. Till 5 December.

BARGA
Immagini della Valle del Serchio nella pittura del novecento 20th century landscape from the Garfagnana. Fondazione Ricci Till 5 September.