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This Editor’s Note originally appeared in the June/July 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Members receive access to more than 190 back issues—if you’re not a member, join here. Like all of us, I venture to guess, I never feel like I spend enough time in Sicily. Just like the rest of Italy, it would take several lifetimes to peel …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Alpemare Beach Club, which the Bocelli family owns, welcomes guests with a palette of soothing nature, fresh air and elegant luxury on a private beach. A pine forest at the property’s edge complements the landscape …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Held each summer in Torre del Lago, the Puccini Festival features a handful of different operas in a majestic lakeside amphitheater. Opera enthusiasts flock to the festival to witness some of Italy’s best performances—productions include …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. While the Puccini museum in Lucca is in the composer’s childhood home, this villa-turned-museum in Torre del Lago is where Puccini spent his adulthood. His son Antonio turned the home into a museum in 1925, …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Just as Lajatico and Forte dei Marmi have inspired Bocelli, the nature in Torre del Lago inspired Puccini. The composer spent his last 30 years in this idyllic lakeside town and wrote many of his …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Gabriele showed Kathy around the Puccini museum and other notable spots in Lucca, lending his expertise to bring life and detail to these fascinating sites. His degree in art history and his love of Italian …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. 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. Puccini …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Composer Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 in the city of Lucca, whose well-preserved Renaissance-era defensive walls are one of its main sights. Puccini came from a musical family with deep roots in Lucca—his grandfather, …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Approximately 364 days a year, Teatro del Silenzio in Lajatico lives in harmony with the wild hills that surround it. The remaining night, of course, is dedicated to a different type of harmony—a bel canto …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. The Bocelli family winery is run by Andrea Bocelli’s brother Alberto and nephew Alessio. The land has been in the Bocelli family for seven generations; the family started as sharecroppers before purchasing the property in …
