Sold out already for the first screening of the documentary Puccini Places and SuggestionsFriday (14 June) at 5pm in the Antico Caffè Di Simo, as part of the celebrations for the centenary of the death of Giacomo Puccini.
A second screening is already scheduled for 6.10pm to satisfy the many requests and interested parties can book free entry by calling the Teatro del Giglio 0583 465320 or 347 3612123.
The film written and directed by the well-known opera director Vivien Hewittis filmed and edited by the documentarian Roberto Giovannini, well known for his Rai films. It was a very courageous initiative by PromoLucca Editrice and dates back to 1995.
At the time the Hewitt wanted to trace the intimate relationship between Puccini and the Lucca area in which he composed a good part of his masterpieces. For many years he has supported the theory that the composer, in writing his masterpieces as Tosca, La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, he imagined the landscape around him as if it were the setting for his shows. Thus he could recognize the American desert in the dunes of Torre del Lago Manon Lescautin the apartments at the top of Lucca inside, the attic of Rodolfo and Mimì, in the church of San Paolino the Madonna to whom Tosca brings her flowers, in the Walls of Lucca the battlements of the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome and in the floating reeds and weeping willows of Massaciuccoli, Butterfly’s folding house.
The documentary film stops in all the master’s homes, from the house where he was born in via di Poggio to the Casa degli Avi in Puccini’s cells, and from the Villa of Torre del Lago to those of Chiatri and Viareggio. Caffè Caselli-Di Simo itself figures in the filming along with many other places dear to the maestro such as Abetone and Bagni di Lucca.
It is an unmissable event lasting an hour in the presence of director Vivien Hewitt who will make a short presentation and, at the end of the screening, will be entertained for anyone who wants to ask some questions.
The cultural event was made possible with the contribution of the Municipality of Lucca department of culture, of Vivi Lucca Sportello Eventi and is sponsored by the Lucchesi nel Mondo association, owners of the Puccini ancestral home in Celle.
