Exhibition events
Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 2008
Puccini and Lucca. “When I feel the sweet nostalgia for my native land”
by
Gabriella Biagi Ravenni, Giulio Battelli, Giuseppe Pintorno, Dieter Schickling
Lucca – Guinigi Palace
June 14th – December 22nd
Opening hours:
From 14th June to 30th September
Open every day (Monday to Sunday) 10am – 7pm;
Late opening on Saturday 9 pm – 12 pm
From 1st October to 22nd December
Closed on Mondays;
From Tuesday to Friday 3 pm - 7 pm; Saturday and public holidays 10 am - 1 pm / 3 pm - 7 pm
Ticket price:
Full rate € 6,00
Reduced rate € 4,50 ( children under 14, over 65s, members of the armed forces, concessions*).
Free : children under 10, disabled person and one carer per disabled person where necessary.
Reductions for groups of minimum 15 person ( 1 free entry per 20 paying).
Guided tours available – advance booking required.
Price on request.
*Holders of ticket for performances staged by Associazione Musicale Lucchese, the Festival Pucciniano and Teatro del Giglio. Coop shareholders.
Puccini and cinema – Puccini frame by frame
Torre del Lago – New Theatre Auditorium
by Pier Marco De Santi
June 29th – September 30th
Opening hours:
Open every day (Monday to Sunday)
5 pm – 11 pm
www.puccinifestival.it
Free entry
Film Show
Screening Schedule – all screenings starting at 9:00 pm at the Theatre’s Auditorium.
JUNE
29th June – Madame Butterfly ( 1995), director Frédéric Mitterand – Introduction by Pier Marco De Santi in the presence of the Author
JULY
1st July – Madame Butterfly (1993), director David Cronenberg
2nd July – Tosca (1941), directed by Jean Renoir / Karl Koch
3rd July – Avanti a Lui Tremava Tutta Roma ( 1946), director Carmine Gallone
7th July – Moonstruck (1987), director Norman Jevison
8th July – Special Evening. Screening of the whole TV serial
- Puccini (1974), director Sandro Bolchi
22nd July – Special Evening - Puccini and the Fanciulla (2008).
Meeting with director Paolo Benvenuti on film processing
24th July – Tosca (2001), director Benoit Jacquot
28th July – Special Evening. Meeting with Luigi Magni
La Tosca (1973), director Luigi Magni
29th July – La Bohème (1926), director King Vidor – Uncut version of the film introduced by Pier Marco De Santi.
30th July – Manon (1949), director Henri-Georges Clouzot
AUGUST
1st August – A Room with a View (1985), director James Ivory
4th August – Harakiri (1919), director Fritz Lang - Uncut version of the film introduced by Pier Marco De Santi.
5th August – La Bohème (1987), director Luigi Comencini
6th August – La Tosca (1956), director Carmine Gallone
11th August – Special Evening – Puccini and House of Ricordi.
- House of Ricordi (1954), director Carmine Gallone
- La Famiglia Ricordi (1995), director Mauro Bolognini
12th August – Special Evening – Premiere of Puccini rarities.
Tosca (1908), directed by A. Calmettes, Victorien Sardou with Sarah Bernhardt
Tosca (1918) 3. Rullo, directed by Alfredo De Antoni with Francesca Bertini
The funeral of Puccini in Brussels (1924), Newsreel Pathè
Puccini at Home (1913)
One day with Giacomo Puccini (1915)
Tosca (1909), director Charles Le Bargy
La Bohème (1912), director Albert Capellani
13th August – “White Night with Puccini” Special. Non-stop screening of all the sequences of the films with Puccini's music, with live music interludes.
18th August – The Girl of the Golden West (1938), director Robert Z. Leonard
19th August – Special Evening – Premiere – La Bohème (1935), director Paul Stein
Uncut version in English
20th August – My Geisha (1961), director Jack Cardiff
21st August – Special Evening – Meeting with Ugo Gregoretti
Maggio Musicale (1989), director Ugo Gregoretti
24th August – Tosca - Nei Luoghi e Nelle Ore di Tosca (1992), director Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
25th August – Madama Butterfly (1974), director Jean Pierre Ponnelle
26th August – Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing (1999), director Zhang Yimou
SEPTEMBER
1st September – Manon Lescaut (1926), director Paul Robinson, with Lya De Putti
2nd September – Special Evening – Premiere.
La Vie de Bohème (1947), director Marcel L’Herbier
3rd September – Callas Forever (2002), director Franco Zeffirelli
4th September – Special Evening “Puccini in Cartoons”.
Babe: Pig in the City (1998), director George Miller
Recess: School's Out (2001), director Chock Sheetz
Toys (1992), director Berry Levinson
Aria (2002), director Piotr Sapegin
5th September – Madame Butterfly (1915), director Sidney Olcott, with Mary Pickford
6th September – Special Evening – Premiere.
White Night with Puccini “Homage to Carmine Gallone”.
Non-stop screening with live music interludes of the following films:
Il Sogno di Butterfly (1939), Premiere
Madame Butterfly (1955); Puccini (1952); Tosca (1956)
7th September – New York Stories (1989) – Episode “Life Lessons”, director Martin Scorsese
- Aria (1987) Episode “Nessun dorma”, director Ken Russell
11th September – Special Evening – Premiere.
- The Toll of the Sea (1924) – First colour copy of a Puccini film -
director Chester M. Franklin
12th September – Special “The great Puccini voices in cinema”
Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe Lugo, Tito Schipa, Jan Kiepura, Martha Eggert
Mario Lanza, Jeannette Mc Donald.
13th September – Special Evening – Preview of the film
Puccini and the Fanciulla (2008), director Paolo Benvenuti
18th September – Special Evening – Premiere
La Bohème (1923), director Gennaro Righelli
19th September – La Bohème (1967), director Franco Zeffirelli
20th September – Puccini (1984), director Tony Palmer
25th September – Puccini in documentaries
Armonie Pucciniane (1958), director Giorgio Ferroni
Puccini the Great Composer (1997), director Chris Hunt
Giacomo Puccini, director Giuliano Biagetti
26th September – La Tosca (1976), director Gianfranco de Bosio
27th September – Special Evening – Preview of the RAI serial
Puccini (2008), director Giorgio Capitani
Puccini and Celle – A family of musicians
by Gabriella Biagi Ravenni, Giulio Battelli, Giuseppe Pintorno, Dieter Schickling
Celle dei Puccini Museum - Pescaglia
June 21th - September 30th
Opening times:
10 am – 1 pm / 3 pm – 7 pm
Closed on Mondays;
Free entry
For further information please contact :
The secretary of the Associazione Lucchesi nel mondo
Tel. 0583 – 467855 – Mon – Fir 9 am / 12 am
Mobile 347 – 4226189
