Villa Puccini Museum

This guide to the Villa Puccini Museum in Lucca follows Giacomo Puccini from the day in 1891 he first camped on the shore of Lake Massaciuccoli to hunt ducks, to the house he built here in 1899 to escape the fame that operas like La Boheme had already brought him. It traces the mornings he spent composing at the piano still standing in this room, and the hunting trips he took across the lake before the ink was even dry. The guide follows him on to Viareggio in 1921, chasing quiet to finish one last opera.