Lucca’s “Santa Cecilia” Capella choir annually presents the traditional Epiphany concert on Wednesday, January 6th at San Martino’s Cathedral after 5 pm Vespers. Opening the concert will be the choir’s children’s voices directed by Sara Matteucci, with pieces by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Handel and traditional Christmas carols. Afterwards, the “Ars Maxima” choir, directed by Rossella Isola...

As per tradition, the evening of September 13th at approximately 10 pm at the Cathedral of San  Martino there’s the mottettone. This year it’s Annunziate A Tutte Le Genti by Marino Pratali from Lucca (1915-1997) marking the centenary of his birth. Performed for the first time in 1976, and then again in 1981 and in...