Al Bustan International Festival of Music and Performing Arts, the Italian Embassy in Lebanon and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut present Puccini Opera Gala, a concert of Puccini’s melodies to mark the centenary of the great Italian composer’s death.
The event benefits from the collaboration of the Festival Pucciniano Foundation and the City of Viareggio, and is the opening concert of the Al Bustan Festival.
Valentina Boi, soprano
Marco Berti, tenor
Francesco Barbagelata, piano
Program
from Manon Lescaut, “Donna non vidi mai” (Marco Berti, tenor)
from Manon Lescaut, “Sola, perduta, abbandonata” (Valentina Boi, soprano)
from Manon Lescaut, “Intermezzo” (Francesco Barbagelata, piano)
from La Bohème, “Sì, mi chiamano Mimì” (Valentina Boi, soprano)
from Tosca, “Mario, Mario, Mario…. Son qui…” (Marco Berti, tenor)
from Tosca, “Vissi d’arte” (Valentina Boi, soprano)
from Tosca, “E lucean le stelle” (Marco Berti, tenor)
Interval
Feuille d’album (Francesco Barbagelata, piano)
from Madama Butterfly, “Addio fiorito asil” (Marco Berti, tenor)
from Madama Butterfly, “Un bel dì vedremo” (Valentina Boi, soprano)
from La Fanciulla del West, “Ch’ella mi creda” (Marco Berti, tenor)
from Il Tabarro, “E’ ben altro il mio sogno..” (Marco Berti, tenor)
from Suor Angelica, “Intermezzo” (Francesco Barbagelata, piano)
from Suor Angelica, “Senza mamma” (Valentina Boi, soprano)
fromTurandot, “Nessun dorma” (Marco Berti, tenor)
CV artists
Valentina Boi
Marco Berti
Francesco Barbagelata
The Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago (puccinifestival.it) is one of the most eagerly awaited events in the rich cultural life of Tuscany (visittuscany.com), one of Italy’s most important opera festivals and the only one in the world dedicated to the composer Giacomo Puccini. It takes place every summer, in July and August, in the very places that inspired Maestro Puccini’s immortal melodies.
The Festival was created in 1930 in response to an intimate desire of the Maestro to hear one of his works resonate on the shores of the lake where he composed them. And it was precisely there, only six years after his death, that the Maestro’s friends, including Pietro Mascagni, first staged one of Puccini’s masterpieces, La Bohème. Since 1930 and over the years, the festival has become a prestigious event, attracting thousands of spectators from all over the world. Puccini’s operas are staged in a large 3,400-seat open-air theater on the shores of Lake Massaciuccoli, surrounded by greenery and right opposite the Casa Museo del maestro Puccini, where his remains lie.
The Puccini Festival is the ideal starting point for discovering Giacomo Puccini the man, whimsical and intriguing, passionate about hunting and automobiles, a great innovator and artist, and for attending live performances of his memorable masterpieces.
To celebrate the Centenary of the Maestro’s death, the Festival Puccini de Torre del Lago, in its 70th edition, presents a program that retraces the artistic parable of Giacomo Puccini with 7 titles on the program, from July 12 to September 7, 2024: Le Villi and Edgar in a dyptic during the same evening, Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Tosca, l’inachevée, Turandot and Madama Butterfly.
“A century after his death,” says Puccini Festival artistic director Pier Luigi Pizzi, “Giacomo Puccini’s popularity has never waned, if anything it has even increased. This topicality lies in the fact that people continue to recognize themselves in his theater and in the profound humanity of his creatures. His theater speaks to everyone, it’s universal. Puccini still represents a model for those who want to write for opera“.
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