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Day 11: Born in 1858, Giacomo Puccini is one of Italy’s most famous opera composers, with operas like Tosca, La Boheme and Madama Butterfly. Puccini’s birthplace and childhood home in Lucca is now a museum housing artifacts including the 19th-century Steinway piano on which the composer wrote his operas, costumes, opera scores, photos and furniture from his childhood. The villa-turned-museum in Torre del Lago is where Puccini spent his adulthood. His son Antonio turned the home into a museum in 1925, and the furnishings, ambiance and artifacts have remained the same since, giving visitors an authentic look into Puccini’s life. The composer died in 1924 and is buried in the chapel on site, in a mausoleum specially built for him and his family members. Each summer the Puccini Festival takes place lakeside just a stone’s through from the villa.
See more of Puccini and his legacy in the Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany episode of our Dream of Italy TV series.
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