Category: Events in Tuscany

Tuscany music

Anfiteatro Square

Lucca: European Feast of Music
Open air musical performances held throughout all European cities on the weekend 19,20 and 21 June.
In Lucca, the Compagnia delle Arti will organise music in Piazza dell’Anfiteatro. Film score choral music, 19 June.
Marco Cattani Group play music inspired by the Invisible Cities of Italo Calvino, 20 June.
Internos Jazz Quartet play original music, 21 June.

S. Cristoforo Church Via Fillungo

Nuove tendenze organise exhibitions and music. Giuseppe Palumbo opera pittorica 1996-2010. 10.30-13.00 and 15.30-21.00 weekends 19, 20, 26 and 27 June, weekdays 15.30-21.00 till 27 June.

Opera in Salotto Belcanto italiano in concert format. Ensemble Suoni Arti, 20.00 on 18 June.

Classic guitar music with Edoardo Pieri, 19.00 and 21.00 on 19 June.

Duo di Tango Argentino 21.00 on 20 June.

Jazz Freaks Trio 21.00 on on 25 June.

Ensemble Nuova Cappella di Palazzo directed by Jonathan Brandani 21.00 on 26 June.

Tribute to Fabrizio De Andrè by the Group Entelchia 21.00 on 27 June.

Tuscany Walking Festival

Alpi Apuane

Guided trekking  15, 18, 20 and 28 June.
Walking with mules: Stazzema, Circuit of Pruno’s mountain shelters. 18 and 28 june. Walk the Corpus Christi petal carpet at Camaiore, 14 June.
Summer Solstice events: Acqua Pendente Waterfall and the Orzale Ring. From the chestnut grove to the table, visit the chestnut groves and flour mills. Taste chestnut pancakes with ricotta.
Star gazing evenings.
Visit the Parco della pace at S. Anna di Stazzema Nordic Walking. Book 3 days in advance. Tel 0583 644242.
Consult the detailed programme on www.tuscanywalkingfestival.it

Concerts in Tuscany

Pisa Tower

Music under the Tower
Do not miss the six concerts of classical, jazz and chamber music being held in June and July in the fascinating and informal setting of the Cathedral Cloister at Pisa. The cloister can hold only a few hundred people, so music and art will combine to create an intimate atmosphere of pure relaxation and pleasure. Enjoy beautiful music in the shadow of the Tower, in the early summer evening air as the rays of the sun fade away.
This is the ninth edition of this special festival. And this year, top artists will perform music by Piazzolla, Morricone, Bach, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Chopin, Stravinsky, Kurt Weill and others.

All concerts will start at 9 pm.
Tickets euro 12,00
Dates: 21-25 and 28 June; 1-5 and 8 July 2010
Info tel: +39 050 835029
Fax: +39 050 560505
www.opapisa.it –  animamundi@opapisa.it

Tuscany events

State of Mind

Minimal Art & Paradigms

Disarmare, Irritare, Impaurire, Mettersi in gioco.
Four significant verbs which assault the mind when visiting the Minimal Art exhibition at the Lu.C.C.A. Center of contemprary Art.
Of the eight artists exhibiting, six came to Lucca to supervise the installation of their opere and entering the first sala you immediately see why. The immense white walls, the huge empty spaces and the sometimes warm sometimes cold lighting are just as much a part of the exhibition as the works on show. And so is the spectator or, better definition, utente (user). Because you don’t look, you experience.
Disarmed? Irritated? Afraid? Rethinking your fixed values? Well that’s the point.
Monochrome paanels in unique handmade acid shades, smooth or bevelled, opaque or translucent, beckon you in through a perspex outer shell or by dint of mere size and position force you to check your own vantage point.
Recycled wooden boxes, dandelion sculpture, two sided mirrored drawings. There is no one homogeneous theme in the show except your own reactions.
Although Minimal Art dates back to the 50s these works belong to the last two decades. So does that mean art is stuck in a rut and the only way out is provocation for its own sake? Where does creativity go now?
The show running parallel in the gallery’s Underground points a way. If scientific research and science fiction talk up to nine dimensions and technology leaps in ten-year bounds surely our two of three dimensional perceptions put a limit to creative experience. Maria Cristina Finucci’s mobile installation and adjacent video pulls you beyond your known sensorial self, plunging you into a frightening but fascinating unexplored area of your mind, tripping you into an Odyssey in time and space.

State of Mind – The Panza Collection of Minimal Art.
Lawrence Carroll, christiane Lohr, Emil lukas, Lies Kraal, timothy Litzmann, Jonathan Seliger, Sean Shanahan, Roy Thurston.
Paradigms by Maria Cristina Finucci.
Installation in the Underground, Design and works in metal on the ground floor. Both exhibitions run till 27 June.

Open tuesday till Saturday 10,00 – 19.00 and Sunday 11.00 – 20.00
Closed Mondays.

Lu.C.C.A. Center for Contemporary Art.
Via della Fratta 36

WEB SITE: www.luccamuseum.com

Giacomo Puccini June 2010 Events in Lucca

Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini June 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