The Gaulitanus Choir will shortly be on its 21st venture abroad, concert touring Venezia and Padova, Italy. Indeed, between the 27th and the 31st July, the choir will be performing for the first time in the Veneto region.
The Gozitan choir will be participating in the 3rd edition of the prestigious Vivaldi Festival together with an impressive line-up of international artists. This follows an invitation from the Associazione Vivaldi Festival, ensuing from the choir’s international networking as a result its Gaulitana: A Festival of Music – whose past operatic productions have all been directed by the Vivaldi Festival’s artistic director, Enrico Castiglione.
The Gaulitanus Choir, together with the Vivaldi Festival Orchestra, will actually bring the Vivaldi Festival to an end with a concert on July 28th – the 282nd death anniversary of the great Baroque Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi. The festival’s concluding concert, being held in the historic San Salvador Church in the very heart of Venice, will alternate instrumental with choral numbers. The instrumental numbers will feature the festival orchestra in a number of sacred-inspired works. These include the Concerto No 19 in D Major for Violin and Strings “Per la Lingua di S. Antonio” featuring up-and-coming Gozitan violinist Pierre Louis Attard – himself a Gaulitanus Choir member and the Gaulitana Festival’s co-ordinator – as soloist. The choral numbers will feature the Gaulitanus Choir accompanied by the festival orchestra in a number of sacred works, including some by Vivaldi himself. The choir’s musical director Colin Attard will conduct the concert.
The choir will complement the concert tour with the animation of two masses in two iconic and monumental churches in the Veneto region. On Saturday 29th July the choir will be at the Basilica di Sant’Antonio in Padua, popularly known just as ‘Il Santo’, the devotional pilgrimage basilica where the remains of the great saint lay. On Sunday 30th the choir will round up its commitments at the Basilica Cattedrale di San Marco in Venice, the seat of the Patriarch and one of the main symbols of the Veneto region worldwide.
As always in its performances abroad, the repertoire will significantly also include Maltese music (including excerpts in the Maltese language), reflecting the Gaulitanus Choir’s ambassadorial role as the main choral promoter of Maltese culture and music abroad.
Coming quite soon after the choir’s highly successful (post pandemic) reprise of international touring last December in Vienna, the Venezia-Padova concert tour is part of the Gaulitanus’ broader programme of events overseas.
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