September 12 and 13
Goldoni Theater, Livorno
This VI Edition of the Mascagni Festival, will conclude Sept. 12 and 13 with one of Pietro Mascagni's finest operas, L'Amico Fritz, staged at Teatro Goldoni. This production will reprise the historic 1991 Teatro di Livorno production, paying homage to a title that represents a unicum in the Leghorn composer's output. Mascagni, with L'amico Fritz, experiments with lighter lyrical writing than in later dramas such as I Rantzau and Guglielmo Ratcliff, choosing the genre of operatic comedy.