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You can find here many objects belonging to the composer, including the Steinway on which he composed, among others, “Turandot”.

The museum in Piazza Cittadella is Puccini’s birthplace, where he lived for over 20 years with his parents and sisters.

TO THE COMPLETE PUCCINI BIOGRAPHY TO THE TRAVEL GUIDE PO VALLEY, EMILIA ROMAGNA TOSCANA FOR OPERA AND CLASSIC LOVERS He was able to buy back his parents’ house with the money from his first successful opera “Manon Lescaut” and it still belongs to his descendants, who set up a museum in it.Īfter his success in Milan Puccini came back to Lucca and started an affair with his later wife Elvira, unfortunately she was married to a grocer of the village, the whole thing ended tragically, more about this below in the excursus “Puccini’s affairs and his Liù”. He remained attached to his hometown throughout his life and built two residences outside Lucca (Chiatri and Torre di Lago). He grew up in Lucca and left it at the age of 22 for his education at the conservatory in Milan. Puccini was born in 1858 into a family of musicians.