The winner of the edition of the 11th Anima Mundi International Competition of Sacred Music Composition announced by the Opera della Primaziale Pisana and the Anima Mundi Festival of Sacred Music is Andrea Baratti. The committee composed of John Eliot Gardiner (Jury President), Mgr. Marco Frisina, Mgr. Aldo Armani, Maestro Antonio Greco and Maestro Guido […]

Anima Mundi certainly has not needed to mature its eighteen years of holding events to fully come of age. It is undoubtedly an achievement worth celebrating and it’s not the only one this year. In fact, on 26 September 1118 Pope Gelasius II consecrated the Cathedral of Pisa to Santa Maria Assunta. Nine hundred years […]

The eleventh edition of the Anima Mundi Competition of Composition expires April 30, 2018

Il pubblico di questa edizione di Anima Mundi avrà la possibilità di sostenere attraverso libere offerte alcune iniziative di solidarietà e assistenza sul territorio, promosse da Arcidiocesi di Pisa-Caritas Diocesana.  

It has now been five hundred years since the Lutheran Reformation (and when we speak about the Reformation in the contest of music, people always end up talking about Johann Sebastian Bach), two hundred and fifty years since the death of Georg Philipp Telemann, who was Bach’s contemporary and colleague, and four hundred and fifty […]

The winner of the Xth edition of the 10th Anima Mundi International Competition of Sacred Music Composition announced by the Opera della Primaziale Pisana and the Anima Mundi Festival of Sacred Music is Paolo Pandolfo. The committee composed of John Eliot Gardiner (Jury President), Mgr. Marco Frisina, Mgr. Aldo Armani, Maestro Antonio Greco and Maestro […]

The tenth edition of the Anima Mundi Competition of Composition expires April 20, 2017

Two great nineteenth-century oratorios will open and close Anima Mundi 2016 in the Cathedral. Let’s start with Saturday 10th September with Svatá Ludmila (Saint Ludmila) by Antonín Dvořák, an unusual piece but fascinating for the religion of late Romanticism, brought to Pisa by a director who is arousing great interest in the world of music, […]

The ninth edition of the Anima Mundi Competition of Composition expires April 20, 2016

This year marks the 750th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s birth: Pisa is celebrating it with Anima Mundi 2015 by including the momentous symphony Dante by Franz Liszt and Giuseppe Verdi’s Laudi alla Vergine Maria (from Paradiso) conducted by Stefan Soltesz and featuring the Carlo Felice di Genova Orchestra and Choir. The festival will open with […]