Puccini Festival

Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago is one of the most anticipated events in the rich cultural life of Tuscany, the most important opera festival in Italy and the only one in the world dedicated to the composer Giacomo Puccini which takes place every summer, in the months of July and August, precisely in the places that inspired Maestro Puccini for his immortal melodies.

Born in 1930 over the years it has become a prestigious event capable of attracting thousands of spectators from all over the world who at the Puccini Festival can listen to the greatest stars of opera, under the direction of important conductors, and admire extraordinary staging curated by the most famous directors of Puccini’s masterpieces from Madama Butterfly, Turandot, La Bohème, Tosca to Manon Lescaut. Puccini’s works are staged in a large open-air theater with 3,400 seats, on the shores of Lake Massaciuccoli, surrounded by greenery right in front of the Puccini’s House Museum where the remains of the musician are kept and where you can admire finds and relics of the life and glorious artistic life of Puccini.