Choirs from all over the world meet again in the Vatican. It will happen from June 7th to 9th. And Pope Francis will also participate in the Paul VI Hall tomorrow.
The event, promoted by the Choir of the Diocese of Rome to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its foundation, is organized by Nova Opera and is sponsored by the Dicastery for Culture and Education and the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music. The International Conference will be moderated by Maestro Monsignor Marco Frisina, composer and founder of the Choir of the Diocese of Rome and will see the presence of great experts in sacred and liturgical music from all over the world.
The Perfetta Letizia polyphonic choir of Gela, which will represent the diocese of Piazza Armerina, will have the privilege of performing alongside the choir of the diocese of Rome, directed by Monsignor Marco Frisina on the stage set up in Sala Nervi in front of over 8000 choristers. The culminating moment will be the audience that Pope Francis will grant to all participants, in the Paul VI Hall, on the morning of Saturday 8 June.
In the same afternoon, again in the Paul VI Hall, the great Choral Concert will be held: all the singers present will arrange themselves in the Hall in the four singing voices and, singing together with the 300 elements of the Choir of the Diocese of Rome, they will form a single large choir polyphonic. All the choristers will be accompanied by over 80 musicians of the Nova Opera Orchestra and will be directed by Monsignor Frisina. The musical program includes the most representative pieces of the classical and contemporary sacred musical tradition.
For the occasion, a new piece was composed, “Christ is my hope”, which will be performed for the first time at the Concert, and a medley which includes the most significant pieces of the first 40 years of the Choir founded by Mons. Frisina precisely in June 1984. The three days will therefore end on Sunday 9 June at 10.30 with the Mass in the Vatican Basilica at the Altar of Confession, presided over by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti and animated by all the singers. At the end of the celebration, all the choristers will reach St. Peter’s Square to pray the Angelus together with the Pope.
