Il mio mistero è chiuso in me – Life and operas of Giacomo Puccini

Descrizione

Il mio mistero è chiuso in me – Life and operas of Giacomo Puccini. In the heart of the city of Lucca, a stone’s throw from the central Piazza San Michele, there is a small street, Via di Poggio, that leads to another small square, called Cittadella, where a statue has stood since 1994, the city’s tribute to its greatest son: Giacomo Puccini. It was precisely in Via di Poggio that the young Giacomo was born on 22 December 1858. This volume retraces the Maestro’s life, following his artistic path, but also the influences that the various places and encounters had on his production: from his formative years in Lucca and Milan, with the birth of his first operas, to the fame he achieved with Manon Lescaut, up to the unfinished Turandot. All this without neglecting the most complex moments of his life and artistic production, which frequently went through phases of rethinking and more or less substantial modifications.

The Author
Emiliano Sarti, who grew up in the small village of Gualdo in the hills of Versilia, has lived for many years in Lucca, where he teaches Latin and Greek at the Liceo Classico ‘Machiavelli’. He has published: Amore e morte nella lirica greca; Carpe diem. Pages of Latin poetry; L’eco della pia campana. Vita e opere di Alfredo Catalani; Antologia tematica di lirici greci; L’eroe e il suo destino (Aiace – Edipo re – Filottete); a commentary on Oedipus at Colonus and Electra by Sophocles and other essays on Greek literature and Roman history. His passion for Puccini’s music has prompted him, over the years, to delve deeper into his personality and work.