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2. Festival Puccini - Wikipedia

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   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

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   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. List of opera festivals - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Teatro del Silenzio - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Macerata Opera - Wikipedia

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   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. Teatro Massimo - Wikipedia

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   The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily.It was dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II.It is the biggest in Italy, and one of the largest of Europe (at the time of its inauguration, it was - with its area of 7730 m 2 - the third largest opera house in Europe after the Palais Garnier in Paris, and the K. K. Hof ...

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9. Teatro Verdi (Padova) - Wikipedia

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   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. It was modernized in 1884. [1] Teatro Verdi