16th International Festival Di Musica e Arte Sacra Rome and Vatican
15th September, 2017 and November 4th to November 10th, 2017

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16th Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra Rome and the Vatican.
The Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra dedicates the Festival 2016 to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Saint of the Holy Year of Mercy.

The Festival's music program is rich and spiritually significant and as usual will be performed by world renowned artists, in front of an audience including important personalities from the Italian Republic and the Holy See.


Participating financially with a contribution you will support the foundation's institutional activities so that the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra can organize sacred music projects and finance the restoration of sacred art.


We will be happy to meet you at the Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra!

Friday, 15th September 2017, 8pm - Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

  • Inauguration of the International Festival of Sacred Music and Art with the extraordinary partecipation of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
  • Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  • Victoria, Magnificat primi toni
    Byrd, Ave verum corpus
    Palestrina, Gloria (Missa 'Papae Marcelli')
    Byrd, Rorate coeli
    Brahms, Warum ist das Licht gegeben?
    Bruckner, Christus factus est pro nobis
    Monteverdi, Cantate Domino
    Purcell, Remember not, Lord
    Gabrieli, Exsultavit cor meum
    Purcell, Jehovah, quam multi sunt
    Stephen Cleobury, Conductor

Saturday, 4th November 2017, 4pm - Papal Basilica St. Peter in the Vatican

  • Spiritual Elevation
    Wolfgang A. Mozart, Coronation Mass, KV 317
    Illuminart Philharmonic Orchestra and Illuminart St. Peter Chorus (Jap
    Kana Kumamoto, soprano
    Takako Nogami, mezzo-soprano
    Yusuke Kobori, tenor
    Tsutomu Tanaka, baritone
    Tomomi Nishimoto, Conductor

Saturday, 4th November 2017, 5pm - Papal Basilica St. Peter in the Vatican

  • Holy Mass celebrated by His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Comastri
    Coro del Vicariato Vaticano (Vatican City)
    Temistocle Capone, Conductor
    Orasho
    Illuminart St. Peter Chorus (Japan)
    Tomomi Nishimoto, Conductor

Saturday, 4th November 2017, 9pm - Basilica di Sant’Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio

  • Anton Bruckner, Estratti dal Requiem, Messa in Re minore, Te Deum
    PalatinaKlassik-Vokalensemble (Germany)
    Philharmonischer Chor an der Saar (Germany)
    Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Kazan State Conservatoire (Russian Federation)
    Susanne Bernhard, soprano
    Susanne Schaeffer, contralto
    Oscar de la Torre, tenor
    Heikki Kilpeläinen, baritone
    Leo Kraemer, Conductor

Sunday, 5th November 2017, 9pm - Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura

  • Wolfgang A. Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K 626
    Illuminart Philharmonic Orchestra and Illuminart St. Peter Chorus (Japan)
    Kana Kumamoto, soprano
    Takako Nogami, mezzo-soprano
    Yusuke Kobori, tenor
    Tsutomu Tanaka, baritone
    Tomomi Nishimoto, Conductor

Monday, 6th November 2017, 9pm - Papal Basilica St. Paul Outside the Walls

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major, KV 622
    Daniel Ottensamer, clarinet
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
    Chen Reiss, soprano
    Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
    Wiener Virtuosen - Wiener Philharmoniker (Austria)

Tuesday, 7th November 2017, 9pm - Papal Basilica St. Paul Outside the Walls

  • Franz Joseph Haydn, Die Schöpfung
    Limburger Domsingknaben (Germany)
    Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta (Italy)
    Mechthild Bach, soprano
    Julian Prégardien, tenor
    Thomas Laske, bass
    Andreas Bollendorf, Conductor

Friday, 10th November 2017, 7:30pm - Basilica di Santa Maria del Popolo

  • Lutheran Concert
    Klang der Reformation, „Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott“
    Works by Heinrich Schütz, Samuel Scheidt, Michael Praetorius
    Kammerchor der Frauenkirche Dresden (Germany)
    Matthias Grünert, Conductor

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