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Madrid's International Festival of Sacred Art (FIAS) offers a uniquely diverse program at various venues across the Spanish capital every year. An opportunity to enjoy the work of high profile artists as well as new names, works and various other performances. El Gran Teatro del Mundo opens the festival with a French composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

Madrid International Festival of Sacred Art

The FIAS opening concert featuring the El Gran Teatro del Mundo ensemble and works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

El Gran Teatro del Mundo

Highlight

Spanish viol player Jordi Savall interprets Monteverdi's 7th and 8th book of madrigals, considered to be the composer's musical and aesthetic testament, and among the most beautiful works of Baroque music.

With Jordi Savall

Jordi Savall interprets Monteverdi's 7th and 8th book of madrigals, considered to be the composer's musical and aesthetic testament, and among the most beautiful works of Baroque music.

Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi

An intimate and informal concert from the King’s private bedchamber in Versaille with Thibaut Roussel and Les Musiciens du Roi.

French Baroque Music from Versailles

The King's Bedtime

Jordi Savall transports us to Iberia in the late Middle Ages with a concert dominated by music of this period: the Folía.

Folías & Romanescas

Eight soloists take the audience at La Folle Journée de Nantes on a trip back to the 17th century, a journey that starts in France and ends up in Italy. The first part of the concert is dedicated to French Baroque music. Salomé Gasselin and Corinna Metz play viola da gamba, Jonathan Zehnder performs the theorbo and Emmanuel Arakelian plays organ on compositions by Louis Couperin, Jacques Boyvin and Louis de Caix d'Hervelois. The second part of the program goes over the Alps on a visit to Italy with Hanna Salzenstein on baroque cello, Thibaut Roussel on theorbo, Alberik Boullenois on bowed bass and Justin Taylor on harpsichord.

French and Italian Baroque Music at La Folle Journée de Nantes 2024

Eight soloists take the audience at the Folle Journée de Nantes on a journey through the Baroque era.

French and Italian Baroque Music

Unmissable

Considered one of the greatest composers in the history of music, Johann Sebastian Bach is a true classical music heavyweight. His seminal oeuvre comprises over 1,000 compositions, most of which date back to his time as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. Discover these great classics, from the St. Matthew Passion to the Goldberg Variations.

Bach the Baroque Superstar

No maestros here, only maestras: We showcase some of the most notable female conductors working in music today. Whether they be established names, pioneers or rising stars taking part in the La Maestra competition, delve into this series of concerts to discover each of their singular visions. 

Female conductors

Pioneers, rising stars and promising talent: These are some of the most notable female conductors working today.

Generation Maestras

Performing Arts

Classical

Opera

Parcourir les genres

In the magnificent rooms of the Galleria Borghese in Rome, John Eliot Gardiner and his ensembles The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists bring together the music of Claudio Monteverdi and the paintings of Caravaggio. The encounter of two works whose creators revolutionised their disciplines.

 John Eliot Gardiner bring together the music of Claudio Monteverdi and the paintings of Caravaggio.

Monteverdi & Caravaggio at the Galleria Borghese in Rome

Led by the talented Lea Desandre, this recital offers a daring journey through the Baroque repertoire and pays tribute to daring women. With works by Provenzale, Cavalli, Viviani, Destouches, Marais, Vivaldi, Schürmann and De Bottis.

Amazone

Led by Lea Desandre, this recital takes us on a journey through the Baroque repertoire and pays tribute to daring women.

Lea Desandre

Solemn, and yet jubilant and festive: Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 is an essential masterpiece. Tenor Julian Prégardien, the NDR Vokalsensemble and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin come together to bring all the magic of the festive season.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and NDR choir

A solemn yet jubilant and festive piece: Bach's unmissable masterpiece with tenor Julian Prégardien.

Bach's Christmas Oratorio: Cantatas I to VI

Sacred music meets the theatricality of opera in Handel's oratorio Messiah, here conducted by Laurence Equilbey and performed by the Insula Orchestra, Polish artist Jakub Józef Orliński and the Chœurs accentus at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival.

Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival

Laurence Equilbey conducts Handel's "Messiah" at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival.

Handel's Messiah

Madrid's International Festival of Sacred Art (FIAS) offers a uniquely diverse program at various venues across the Spanish capital every year. An opportunity to enjoy the work of high profile artists as well as new names, works and various other performances. Here, Soprano Ana Vieira Leite and the Concerto 1700 ensemble perform Handel's German Arias.

Soprano Ana Vieira Leite and the Concerto 1700 ensemble perform Handel's German Arias in Madrid.

Handel: German Arias

Madrid's International Festival of Sacred Music (FIAS) offers a unique international program every year at various venues around the Spanish capital. The venue for this concert is the San Miguel basilica for a performance of Tomás Luis de Victoria's Tenebræ Responsoria by Cantoría, a young Spanish ensemble with an international following.

The Cantoría performs Tomás Luis de Victoria's Tenebræ Responsoria in the Basilica of San Miguel.

Tenebræ Responsoria

Jean-Baptiste Lully is synonymous with the Versailles of Louis XIV with his music composed for and accompanying the grand occasions of the court. Three of the composer’s motets are performed from the royal chapel of Versailles.
 Programme :
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Dies Irae
 Jean-Baptiste Lully - O Lachrymae fideles
 Jean-Baptiste Lully - De Profundis

Jean-Baptiste Lully is synonymous with the Versailles of Louis XIV with his music composed for and accompanying the grand occasions of the court.

Three Motets by Lully

La Folle journée de Nantes 2024

Jordi Savall, the singers of La Capella Reial de Catalunya and the musicians of Hespèrion XXI take us on a pilgrimage to Spain in the Middle Ages.

A musical journey with Jordi Savall

Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

The Orpheus XXI ensemble brings together musicians of different countries in a concert focusing on traditional musics of East and West.