Puccini Museum
The Puccini Museum – Birthplace is located in the heart of Lucca, between Piazza Cittadella and Corte San Lorenzo. At the center of the small square, a bronze statue of Giacomo Puccini, sculpted by Vito Tongiani in 1994, welcomes residents and visitors.
Address: Court of San Lorenzo, 9 Lucca
phone: 0583 584028
E-MAIL: info@puccinimuseum.it
website: puccinimuseum.org
accessibility: The Museum is located on the second floor of a listed historic building. It has a stairlift accessible to visitors with mobility impairments, which must be booked at the ticket office at least two days in advance.
However, two rooms in the museum are not accessible to people with mobility impairments. Visits to the inaccessible rooms can be made virtually via a free tablet.
The tablet also contains a video tour in LIS (Italian Sign Language) for a guided tour of the Museum dedicated to deaf people.
timetables:
November 1 – January 31
Tuesday to Thursday 10:00 am - 14:00 pm
Friday to Monday 10:00 am - 17:00 pm
closed the 25 December
February 1 – March 31 and October
Wednesday to Monday 9:30 am - 17:30 pm
April 1 – September 30
open every day 9:30-19:00
entrance: an entrance fee is required
Puccini Museum – Birthplace Museum joins Lucca VisitCard the cumulative ticket that allows access to the main places of cultural interest and attractions of the city
The last of a dynasty of composers who for over a century had held the hegemony of the musical life of Lucca, Puccini was born on December 22, 1858 in an apartment on the second floor of a historic building in Corte San LorenzoHe spent his childhood and early youth in this house with his parents, his six sisters and his brother. His first music teacher was his father Michele, who died when he was still young in 1864. Giacomo continued his studies at the “G. Pacini” Music Institute and graduated there in 1880 with one of his first compositions, the Mass for 4 voicesHe left his hometown to follow his vocation for opera and perfect his musical training at the Milan Conservatory.
Before the triumphs, the recognitions and the wealth, the difficult beginnings and the economic problems forced him to make a painful choice and sell the house of his childhood, linked to the happy memories of his childhood.
When the first success came Manon Lescaut With great joy, in 1894 he managed to buy it back and since then it has remained the property of the Maestro's descendants, who donated it to the city institutions to turn it into a museum.
In the original rooms you can admire elegant period furnishings, paintings, photographs, letters, autographed scores of youthful compositions and the drafts of the librettos of Tosca e The West fanciulla, rich in annotations and musical sketches. The most precious object is the Steinway & Sons piano, on which Puccini composed his last unfinished masterpiece, Turandot.A room in the museum is dedicated to Puccini's heroine and here the marvelous stage costume from the second act is on display, a gift from the soprano Maria Jeritza in memory of the first performance of the opera at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York (1926).