enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Festival Puccini - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Puccini

    The Villa Puccini. The Puccini Festival was started in 1930 following what is believed to have been Puccini's comment to friend Giovacchino Forzano, one of his librettists, in 1924 just before he left for the clinic in Brussels for his throat operation: "I always come out here and take a boat to go and shoot snipes … but once I would like to come here and listen to one of my operas in the ...

  3. Teatro Comunale, Florence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_Comunale,_Florence

    The Teatro Comunale di Firenze is an opera house in Florence, Italy. It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele, which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and which seated 6,000 people. It became the focus on cultural life in the city.

  4. Teatro del Silenzio - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_del_Silenzio

    The Teatro del Silenzio (English: Theater of Silence) is an open air amphitheater located in the city of Lajatico – the hometown of Andrea Bocelli – in the Tuscany region of Italy. In 2006, Bocelli convinced the municipality of Lajatico to build this outdoor venue whose structure utilizes the natural formations of the hilly landscape.

  5. List of opera festivals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_opera_festivals

    Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition, and has long been performed for audiences on a large-scale format. It started in Italy at the end of the 16th century and soon spread through the rest of Europe. In the 18th century, Italian opera continued to dominate most of Europe (except France), attracting foreign composers such as ...

  6. Macerata Opera - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macerata_Opera

    Sferisterio open-air theatre. While the Macerata Opera has organized the Macerata Opera Festival as a summer opera festival, it actually began in 1921 with a performance of Verdi's Aida in the 3,000 seat (plus 6,000 standing places) Arena Sferisterio, a huge neoclassical arena erected in the 1820s as a stadium for a form of handball called pallone al bracciale, a sort of game with ball and bangle.

  7. Verona Arena - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verona_Arena

    The Verona Arena (Italian: Arena di Verona, Italian: [aˈrɛːna di veˈroːna, aˈreːna-]) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy, built in 30 AD. It is still in use and serves as a venue for large-scale opera performances. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind.

  8. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

  9. Teatro Verdi (Padova) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_Verdi_(Padova)

    The Teatro Verdi is a theater and opera house in Padova, Italy named after composer Giuseppe Verdi. Constructed in 1749–1751, the theater was inaugurated in 1751. Constructed in 1749–1751, the theater was inaugurated in 1751.