Musicians and Singers

  • Busoni Ferruccio
    • Address: Museo Casa Busoni Piazza Vittoria 16 50053 Empoli (FI) Tel. +39 0571 711122
    • Visiting Hours: booking necessary
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    Empoli (Firenze)

    Ferruccio Busoni (Empoli 1866 – Berlin 1924), son of father from Empoli and mother from Trieste who were both excellent musicians, received a careful musical education at an early age. A well-known pianist, he lived abroad for many years between Germany
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  • Caruso Enrico
    • Address: Comune di Lastra a Signa Museo Enrico Caruso – Villa Bellosguardo Via Bellosguardo 54 50055 Lastra a Signa (FI) Tel. +39 055 8721783
    • Website: museo - villa
    • Contact: museo - villa

    Villa Bellosguardo - Lastra a Signa (Firenze)

    Enrico Caruso, born in Naples, was one of the greatest tenors of our times. He sang in Egypt, Argentina, and Russia, but his greatest successes came in the United States. In 1906 the tenor
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  • Casadei Secondo
    • Address: Museo Secondo Casadei via Della Pace 28 47039 Savignano sul Rubicone (FC) tel.0541945259
    • Visiting Hours: Visite su appuntamento telefonico o via mail
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    Savignano sul Rubicone (Forlì-Cesena)

    Secondo Casadei (Sant’Angelo di Gatteo 1906-Forlimpopoli 1971), musicista e fondatore nel 1928 dell’omonima popolare orchestra, è il protagonista e l’interprete più grande della musica folkloristica romagnola, creatore del fenomeno
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  • Menotti Gian Carlo
    • Address: Via dell’Arringo, I
      06049 Spoleto (PG)
      Tel. +39 0743 46620
    • Visiting Hours: From June to September:
      the days indicated in the calendar
      Morning: 10,30 - 13,00
      Afternoon: 16,00 - 20,00

      From October to January, from April to May:
      the days indicated in the calendar
      Morning: 10,00 - 13,00
      Afternoon: 15,00 - 19,30

      Casa Menotti can be visited, by reservation, also on closed days for groups of people, classes of students, researchers and scholars, by phoning n. 0743.46620 or by fax to n. 0743.23261
    • Website: Casa Menotti
    • Contact: info segreteria

    Casa Menotti - Spoleto (PG)

    Documentation centre of the "festival dei due mondi"

    The Documentation Center of the Festival of two worlds of Spoleto, which is housed in “Casa Menotti”, stands as a sign of continuity between past and present, and gives shape and context to the audio, video and photographic material from

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  • Pavarotti Luciano (Modena)
    • Address: Casa Museo Luciano Pavarotti Stradello Nava, 6 Modena (MO) - ITALY Telefono: 059 460778
    • Visiting Hours: Open daily 10.00 to 18.00 (last admission)
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    Modena

    The house of Maestro Pavarotti was terminated in 2005; it is located in the area he had bought in the mid-eighties.
    The villa (where he lived the last years of his life) has been designed following the instructions and drawings which Maestro gave to architects
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  • Puccini Giacomo (Celle di Pescaglia)
    • Address: Via Meletoli Celle dei Puccini Pescaglia (Lucca) tel. +39 0583467855 +39 0583359488 +39 3476746398 +39 3474226189
    • Visiting Hours: booking required
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    Celle di Pescaglia

    The Puccini Museum at Celle di Pescaglia, owned by the Lucchesi nel Mondo Association, is based in the house which over three centuries ago was the birthplace of Jacopo Puccini (1712-1781) the first of a long dynasty of musicians of whom Giacomo
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  • Puccini Giacomo (Lucca)
    • Address: Biglietteria e bookshop piazza Cittadella, 5 Museo corte S. Lorenzo, 9 55100 Lucca tel. 0583 584028
    • Visiting Hours: aprile-ottobre 10 - 18 novembre-marzo 11 - 17 chiuso il martedì (tranne i festivi) e il 25 dicembre
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    Casa natale (Lucca)

    The Birth Home Museum is situated in an apartment on the second floor of a historic building in the heart of the City of Lucca where Giacomo Puccini was born on December 22, 1858. In this house the composer spent the happy years of his childhood and teenage
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  • Scelsi Giacinto (Roma)
    • Address: Museo Casa Scelsi Via di San Teodoro 8 00186 Roma Tel 0669920344
    • Visiting Hours: Lunedì – venerdì 9.00 – 14.00 Apertura Archivio Lunedì 9.00 – 14.00 e 14.30 – 16.30 Martedì e mercoledì 9.00 – 14.00 Il giovedì e venerdì su appuntamento Per ottimizzare l’utilizzo delle postazioni dell’Archivio vi invitiamo a concordare le date della vostra presenza Visita al Museo Le visite si effettuano previo appuntamento Orari di apertura: lunedì - venerdì 10.00 - 13.00
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    Roma

    The Isabella Scelsi Foundation houses the Casa Scelsi Museum, occupying 100 squared metres of the building and first opened to the public in 1996. The project derived from the express wish of the Maestro himself, who left not only his music, his poetry, and his writing,
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  • Spontini Gaspare
    • Address: Via Gaspare Spontini, 15 - 17
      60030 Maiolati Spontini (AN)
      Cell. 347.9426186
    • Visiting Hours: Open by reservation by appointment
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    Archive, Library, Gaspare Spontini Museum - Maiolati Spontini (AN)

    The building that houses the Museum is the house that the musician had built with the intention of making it his residence upon his return to his hometown. The old rural building, purchased by Spontini in
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  • Verdi Giuseppe (Roncole di Busseto)
    • Address: Via della Processione, 1 Roncole Verdi, Busseto (PR) Tel. 0524.92487 / 0524.801331
    • Website: casamuseo
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    Casa natale (Roncole di Busseto)

    It is only natural for the itinerary to start from here. As can be read on his birth certificate (written in French, since at that time the Municipality of Busseto was under the Department of Taro, directly annexed to France), Giuseppe
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  • Verdi Giuseppe (Sant'Agata)
    • Address: Via Verdi, 31 Sant’Agata Villanova sull’Arda (PC) Tel. +39 0523 830000 Fax +39 0523 830700
    • Website: Villa Verdi
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    Sant’Agata Villanova sull’Arda

    VILLA VERDI IN SANT’AGATA, a few kilometres from Busseto, is the house Giuseppe Verdi bought in 1848, with the initial aim of helping his parents get settled. Following the death of the composer’s mother, Verdi
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