THURSDAY JUNE 8, 2023
11:00 – 17:00: Welcome and registration of the Choirs (Theatre Atti)
15:00: Choral Competition (Category E – Sacred Music – Church of Servi)
21:00: First non-competitive Concert (Church of Servi)
FRIDAY JUNE 9, 2023
10:00 – 12:00: Welcome and registration of the Choirs (Theatre Atti)
9:30: Choral Competition (Category A – Equal Voices Choirs – Theatre Atti)
15:00: Choral Competition (Category D – Folk, Spiritual, Gospel – Theatre Atti)
21:00: Second non-competitive Concert (Church of St. Bernardino)
SATURDAY JUNE 10, 2023
9:30: Choral Competition (Category C – Children Choirs – Theatre Atti)
16:30: Sung Service at the Church of St. Agostino
21:00: Third non-competitive Concert (Church of St. Giuliano)
SUNDAY JUNE 11, 2023
9:30: Choral Competition (Category B – Mixed Choirs – Theatre Galli)
16:30: Meeting with the Jury for the Conductors (City Museum)
21:00: Choral Competition (Category X – Grand Prix – Theatre Galli)
22:30: Awarding and Closing Ceremony (Theatre Galli)
The ‘secular venues’ of the Competition:
Teatro Amintore Galli – Map – Piazza Cavour – Rimini
The Atti Theater – Map – Via Cairoli 42 – Rimini
The Atti Theater is located in the historic center of Rimini, in the vast building complex of the former Agostinian Monastery, built near the church constructed around 1069 and dedicated to St. John the Evangelist but which, granted in 1256 to the Hermits of St. Augustine, it became for all, the church of St. Augustine. Among other things, the Augustinians had the happy intuition of entrusting the execution of a cycle of frescoes in their great church built from scratch to the local pictorial school, recognizing the value of what would later be and defined and appreciated as the “Rimini school of the 13th Century “. Giovanni from Rimini, considered the leader of the 13th Century Rimini area, lived in the district of San Giovanni Evangelista, that is, of St. Augustine. The former convent of the Augustinians, partially rebuilt in the 16th century and rebuilt again after the damage caused by the 1786 earthquake by the architect Giuseppe Achilli, is characterized by its large size, the sobriety and the balance of the architecture and the presence of large courtyards. The Atti Theater was inaugurated in 2001 and takes its name from Isotta degli Atti, lover and wife of the famous Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1470-1468). It is a modern theater with no curtain with over 280 seats, between the stalls and the gallery. The special features: the stalls are mobile, has no fixed seats and can also be used as a stage. The stage in turn, can be extended towards the stalls, in order to allow the performance of the most different types of shows adapting to different scenic uses in an environment that, with the use of a porous stone and cherry wood, ensures excellent acoustic performance.
The ‘sacred venue’ of the Competition
Church of St.a Maria of Servi – Map – Piazzetta dei Servi 1 – Rimini
At the beginning of the XIV century the Malatesta family donated some properties within the city of Rimini to the Servants of Mary who built a first chapel. A few years later the friars decided to expand their church by building a larger one, of which today you can see the side along the main street, Corso d’Augusto. The church was a single nave, inside there were numerous altars and works of art, the apse area was characterized by three chapels with the central one of greater dimensions. The right side chapel had been built by the noble family of the Agolanti, to whom we owe the coat of arms in a pilaster on the side of the church, of the mid-fourteenth century. Between 1774 and 1777 the church and the convent were renovated according to a design by the Bolognese architect Gaetano Stegani (1678-1777); Antonio Trentanove worked as a plasterer and plasticist. In 1798 the Order of Servites was suppressed and the convent passed to the Dominicans who had been transferred from their convent San Cataldo. The Dominicans brought many works of art belonging to their previous headquarters but their order was revoked in 1799. Since 1806 the church has been a parish of Santa Maria in Corte. In 1885 the parish priest Don Ugo Maccolini established the Pious Work of the Rosary and thanks to the funds collected with it, he was able to reconstruct the façade of the church built in 1894 to a design by Eng. Giuseppe Urbani (1861-1937), rebuild the upper part of the bell tower and decorated the interior of the church with gilding made by Luigi Samoggia from Bologna.