Presentations

1996

22nd December, Palazzo Orsetti, Lucca.
In cooperation with the Associazione tra gli Operatori e Sostenitori del Mercato Antiquario (today Associazione «Lucca & Mercanti»), Julian Budden presented the volume Puccini, edited by Virgilio Bernardoni, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1996.
1997
23rd October, Associazione Industriali, Palazzo Bernardini, Lucca,
Con Puccini verso il 2000: proposte e progetti. Ricerca, informatica, multimedialità, spettacolo.
Official opening of the Web site, realised by the founder member Michele Girardi with Lucense SCpA At the presentation took part Julian Budden, Gabriella Biagi Ravenni, Gabriele Dotto, Michele Girardi, Arthur Groos, Maurizio Pera, Dieter Schickling, Carlo Majer (then Artistic Director of the Teatro Regio di Torino), the President of Lucense Mauro Fenili, Andrea Mariani and Riccardo Nieri.

5th December, Teatro del Giglio, Lucca
Lecture on La rondine by Michele Girardi (opera season programme)
1998
18th March,Hotel Dorchester, London
On this occasion of the eventLucca a Londra. Giacomo Puccini nel mondo, promoted by the Azienda di Promozione Turistica of Lucca, Julian Budden and Gabriella Biagi Ravenni presented Itinerari pucciniani(italian and english versions) and the first results of a project, in collaboration with the Royal College of Music of Londra, whose aim is to collect documents regarding the presence of Puccini in London.

9th December, Palazzo Orsetti, Lucca
Michele Girardi and Virgilio Bernardoni, for the Centro studi, presented the volume: Giacomo Puccini. L’uomo, il musicista, il panorama europeo, Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi Giacomo Puccini in occasione del 70° anniversario della morte (Lucca, 25-29 novembre 1994),edited by Gabriella Biagi Ravenni and Carolyn Gianturco, Lucca, LIM, 1997.

11th December: Palazzo Orsetti, Lucca,
The editorial commitee, presented the first number of the scholarly journal Studi pucciniani.

2001
18th September, Palazzo Orsetti, Lucca
lecture on La fanciulla del West by Julian Budden and Giulio Battelli (opera season programme)

20th September, Palazzo Bernardini, Lucca
Virgilio Bernardoni, Michele Girardi and Arthur Groos presented the second number of the journal Studi pucciniani