Naples’ Favorite Character: Pulcinella (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Pulcinella is a character from Naples’ Commedia dell’Arte—a sort of centuries-old popular theater known throughout Italy. He is everywhere in his home city and is recognizable by a crooked nose, humpback, white outfit with a pointed cap and black mask. He always has a potbelly which in the past, …

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The Colors of Lake Trasimeno (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. What will you notice first? The colors that surround Lake Trasimeno, from the sky down to the gentle undulation of small waves? How the light is cast above the waters or the tranquility the lake exudes? Whichever sensation captures you, you yearn for more. On an August evening, the …

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Dream of Italy Season Three Wins Three 2024 Telly Awards!

I am orgogliosissimo, very proud, to share that Season 3 of our PBS Series Dream of Italy has won three prestigious Telly Awards. Our third season, which premiered on PBS this winter and is still airing and repeating on PBS  stations and platforms like the PBS app and PBS Passport is the: Silver Winner in  Television: Culture & Lifestyle Bronze …

Editor’s Note: April/May 2024 Dream of Italy Issue

This Editor’s Note originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Members receive access to more than 190 back issues—if you’re not a member, join here.  Hello from the high seas! I am currently sailing with Regent Seven Seas on a European journey from Italy to Greece and Turkey. My heart is, as always, in Italy and …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Episode 3.01 Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany

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. We visit the seaside home of famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in Tuscany to learn how this region has influenced Bocelli’s life and music, exploring his deep faith and love of dogs and visiting the …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Alpemare Beach Club

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 …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Puccini Festival

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 …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Villa 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. 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, …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Torre del Lago

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 …