Almost all the major stars have sung here: Giuseppe Di Stefano, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Josè Carreras, Tito Gobbi, Renata Scotto, Eva Marton, Katia Ricciarelli, Monserrat Caballé. The Puccini Festival 2022 in Tuscany is a midsummer dream for fans of classical music and Italian opera. The official website of the Festival, com, received, during the last 10 years, almost 7million visits and every day it counts between 3,000 to 4,000 recorded visitors. At the end of a Tuscan summer the evocative ambiance of Giacomo Puccini’s operas complements the idyllic setting of the Puccini Opera Festival, placed against the still waters of Lake Massaciuccoli and the hamlet of Torre del Lago. Since then an open air opera theatre has been built with the lake as a magnificent backdrop. Torre del Lago & Lucca:The Puccini Opera Festival Tour Manager James Hill. This was the beginning of what was to become a major opera festival. For the next forty years, until his death in 1924, Puccini composed operas which today are still the most performed works on the stages of the worlds opera. On 24th August 1930, his dream became a reality and together with Pietro Mascagni, a fellow student of Puccini’s, Forzano produced the first performances of a Puccini opera on the lake shore, in front of the Maestro’s house on a stage built on piles stuck in the lake.
It is said that Puccini once expressed to his friend and librettist Giovacchino Forzano that whilst he always went to the lake to hunt, he would for once like to go there and see one of his operas performed in the open air. Both him and his wife were buried in a small chapel that their son had built next to the house, which incidentally is a museum. It was there that he wrote among other things - Tosca (1990) and Madame butterfly (1904). He completely refurbished the tower and lived there for a few years before his death in 1924. This work enabled him to buy his first house or rather the old watchtower on the shore of the lake. He fell in love with the peace and harmony in nature that surrounded him, and seemingly inspired him. It was right here in this area that Puccini created his early masterpieces - Manon Lescaut (1893) and La Bohème (1896).
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