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XXIV Festival internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra
from November 8 to 12, 2025
in Rome and the Vatican
in honor of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his birth
In eternal memory of the words that Pope Paul VI, who has since been canonized, addressed to artists in his speech at the end of the Second Vatican Council in 1965: "This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, is what gladdens the hearts of men, it is the precious fruit that resists the wear and tear of time, that unites generations and makes them communicate with each other in admiration".
Program
Saturday, November 8, 2025 - 12:00 noon
Church of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio
Holy Mass
Regensburger Domspatzen
Christian Heiß, musical director
Saturday, November 8, 2025 - 9:00 p.m.
Pontifical Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Confitebor tibi domine
Gregorio Allegri, Miserere
Costanzo Festa, Quam pulchra es
Josquin Desprez, Praeter rerum seriem
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Laudate pueri
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, musical director
Sunday, November 9, 2025 - 12:00 noon
Palazzo della Cancelleria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sinfonia concertante in E flat major KV 364 for violin, viola and orchestra
Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" in A minor op. 56
Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschland
Christof Harr, musical director
Sunday, November 9, 2025 - 9:00 p.m.
Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
Spiritual uplift with music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Regensburger Domspatzen
Christian Heiß, musical director
Monday, November 10, 2025 - 9:00 pm
Pontifical Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
Gioachino Rossini, Stabat Mater
Orchestra e Coro dell'Arena di Verona
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - 21:00
Papal Basilica of St. John Lateran
Spiritual uplift with music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina,
Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Hamburg Boys' Choir
Luiz de Godoy, musical director
Wednesday, November 12, 2024 - 09:30 a.m. St. Peter's Square
General audience with the Holy Father
Subject to change - Status April 2025
