The Gaulitanus Choir will very shortly be on its 25th venture abroad, concert touring Portugal between the 29th November and the 3rd December. This choir’s first ever foray to the Iberian Peninsula ensues from a long-standing invitation from the Maltese Embassy in Portugal.
Under the leadership of its musical director Colin Attard, the Gaulitanus Choir will give two concerts. The first will be in Porto at the Igreja da Misericordia, and the second in one of Lisbon’s most iconic venues, the Panteão Nacional. These concerts will be complimented by the animation of masses at Fatima’s devout Basílica de Nossa Senhora do Rosário and the charming Igreja de São Sebastião da Pedreira in Lisbon.
In line with the Gaulitanus Choir’s role as a foremost ambassador of Maltese and Gozitan music and culture abroad, the repertoire being performed will essentially consist of Maltese and Gozitan music, also in the vernacular.
Pertinently, this concert tour – supported by VisitMalta and the Cultural Heritage Directorate within the Ministry for Gozo & Planning – will be the Gaulitanus Choir’s third venture abroad in 2024. In June, the choir was on a concert tour in Rome, Italy – where it presented a concert as part of the Festival Euro Mediterraneo, animated masses in St Peter’s Basilica and the Archbasilica of St John Lateran, as well as partially participated in the ‘IV International Meeting of Choirs in the Vatican’ –, and in July it very prestigiously participated in Puccini’s opera ‘Manon Lescaut’ at the Teatro Antico, Taormina, Italy – an eye-catching production in the splendid open-air Sicilian stage which was also filmed and screened on RAI 5.
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