Giacomo Puccini's operas
week-end in Tuscany
54° Festival Puccini (2008)
The Festival Puccini 2008 will be a special edition characterised by one of the most important cultural events of the latest years:
the inauguration of the New Great Open-Air Theatre,
on the shore of the lake of Massaciuccoli in his beloved town of Torre del Lago.
On 15th June 2008, the 54rd Puccini Festival welcomes thousands of spectators to its New Great Open-Air Theatre in Torre del Lago. In the background of a charming natural landscape, Torre del Lago lies in fact between the Lake of Massaciuccoli and the Tyrrheanian Sea, between Pisa and Viareggio, you can share
nineteen extraordinary opera performances
dedicated to the Italian composer from Lucca.
From 15th June to 5th September
you will be enraptured both by the beautiful of these places and you will meet the emotion arising from the music of Giacomo Puccini’s everlasting operas like Madama Butterfly, la Tosca, la Turandot and the Concert.

Aolmaia Tuscany Society offers you a two-night stay near Torre del Lago, with accommodation and touristic activities to enjoy your time and explore the historical territory, before and after the opera.

You choose the opera and the day, and by your tickets on line ( clicking here )

- Arrival: we will pick you up at Pisa airport or r.r.station, the day before the opera, settle you in a fascinating Historical Dwelling (see below ! ).
Decadent dinner at the best restaurant of the area.

- The first day we will escort you to visit Lucca and surroundings, including a traditional cuisine lunch in one of the best restaurants. Then we drive you to the opera and pick you up at the end of it to take you to your hotel.

- The second day we'll escort you to visit Viareggio, its promenade on the seaside, its fish market, its renowned firms shops. Another unforgettable lunch in a first choice restaurant, then we take you back to the airport or railroad.

(!) Lodging options (depending on vacancy at the time of reservation):
Villa della Seta di Corliano
historical dwelling in a park, near San Giuliano spa..
Villa Romantica liberty villa near the walls of Lucca
Relais dell'Ussero
historical dwelling in Pisa on the Arno river

Club Hotel I Pini
historical dwelling in Lido di Camaiore on the sea coast.

Our service includes accommodation in double occupancy, all meals, transfers, English speaking escort, tours and visits, taxes.
Price Euros 720 per person.
To reserve please e-mail to us clicking here
Reservations accepted only until May 7

It does not include the opera tickets that you can by on line
clicking here

-------- CALENDAR
TURANDOT: Friday 11 July; Saturday 19 July; Friday 25 July; Sunday 3 August; Sunday 10 August; Saturday 23 August
TOSCA: Saturday 12 July; Friday 18 July; Sunday 27 July; Friday 8 August; Friday 22 August
MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Sunday 20 July; Saturday 26 July; Saturday 2 August; Sunday 17 August
EDGAR: Saturday 9 August; Saturday 16 August



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