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Venice on song for Puccini anniversary

Venice music lovers will be bursting into song this year the 150th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini.

The maestro who composed such masterpieces as  "Madam Butterfly," "La Boheme" and "Tosca" is to have a new 3,200-seat amphitheatre and sculpture garden built at the place where he spent most of his life and found inspiration.

It has been built by a lake in Torre del Lago, near the attractive Tuscan city of Lucca. And the Puccini Festival here runs from June 15 to Aug. 17.

But opera houses throughout Italy will also feature Puccini this year, including Milan's Teatro alla Scala and La Fenice in Venice.

This article was written for TravelSavvy Europe by Val Adams. For more information see: Venice - Nightlife. If you know of an interesting European travel related news story, please get in contact.