On Tuesday 10 and 24 June, and 15 july: Three evening events at the Museum with the Ensemble Strumentale Officium Musicum and the Music Chapel, with an exclusive aperitif in the enchanting setting of the Courtyard of San Gottardo in Corte
Tuesday 10 and 24 June
Tuesday 8 and 15 July
For the summer of 2025, Duomo Museum in Milan opens its doors again in the evening for a new edition of “Aperitivo ad Arte”.
Four special evenings combining history, art and music. The visit of the Duomo Museum will be accompanied by a special musical moment by the Ensemble strumentale Officium Musicum and Milan Duomo’s Music Chapel.
On Tuesday 10 June, Tuesday 24 June, Tuesday 8 July and Tuesday 15 July from 7.00 p.m. visitors will have the chance to discover Duomo Museum in the presence of specialized guides to admire the treasures and works of art that tell the events and history of Milan Cathedral in every aspect: the liturgical life, the secular sculpture, the enchanting goldsmiths, the tapestries of fine craftsmanship, the paintings and the luminous stained glass windows. A heritage coming almost entirely from the Cathedral and that tells its double dimension of Cathedral and Monument. On the occasion of these three special evening openings, in fact, Veneranda Fabbrica’s specialized guides will be present along the visiting path to offer insights and explanations about the works and the setting up.
Finally, each evening will be accompanied by a suggestive musical live performance, with the presence of the dell’Ensemble strumentale Officium Musicu and Milan Duomo’s Music Chapel, the oldest cultural institution in Milan, active continuously since 1402. Officium Musicum will perform in two concerts, one dedicated to the composer Antonio Vivaldi and the other to the violin repertoire of the Italian Baroque. The Music Chapel, instead, will offer an anthology of songs from Ambrosian and Gregorian Chant dedicated to the main anniversaries of the liturgical year, and a program of motets by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
ELEGANT APERITIF IN ST. GOTTARDO IN CORTE
During the evenings there will be a convivial moment in the enchanting courtyard of Duomo Museum, an elegant aperitif by Le Gourmet di Tondini in the shade of the copy of the Madonnina and the bell tower of the Church of San Gottardo in Corte. An opportunity to taste the Vino del Duomo (Milan Duomo’s wine), produced by the winery “La Collina dei Ciliegi”.
“Aperitivo AD ARTE” (Music and Art) at Milan Duomo Museum can be booked on the official website duomomilano.it, at a cost of € 25.00 (full price) and € 20.00 (reduced price) until seats are sold out. The cost includes the entrance ticket to the museum and the aperitif.
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MUSIC PROGRAM
Aperitivo ad Arte at Duomo Museum
TUESDAY 10 JUNE 2025
I tre volti di Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Famous examples of Vivaldi’s concertation: from the string concert,
through the solo to the big concert.
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto per archi in Sol maggiore “alla Rustica” RV 151
Presto – Adagio – Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto per violino in Re maggiore RV 230
Allegro – Larghetto – Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto grosso per due violini e violoncello in Re minore RV 565
Allegro – Adagio – Allegro – Largo – Allegro
Ensemble OFFICIUM MUSICUM
Violin I: Angelo Basile* – Riccardo D’Ariano
Violin II: Javier Tiestos* – Laura Camilla Meinhold
Viola: Eugenio Milanese
Cello: Chiara Cardelli*
Double Bass: Matteo Mirri
Basso continuo: Sonia Hrechorowicz
*soli
TUESDAY 24 JUNE 2025
MILAN DUOMO’S MUSIC CHAPEL
The Liturgical Year between Ambrosian Chant and Gregorian Chant
Natale – Christmas, Mass of the Day
Lux fugebit (Ambrosian Chant, Ingressa)
Puer natus est nobis (Gregorian Chant, Introit)
Epifania – Epiphany
Hodie caelesti Sponso (Ambrosian Chant, Transitorium)
Ecce advenit Dominator Dominus (Gregorian Chant, Introit)
Giovedì Santo – Holy Thursday, Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Coene tuae (Ambrosian Chant, Post Evangelium)
Nos autem gloriari (Gregorian Chant, Introit)
Venerdì Santo – Good Friday
Tenebrae factae sunt (Ambrosian Chant, Responsorium)
Christus factus est pro nobis obediens (Gregorian Chant, Gradual)
Domenica di Pasqua – Easter Sunday
Venite populi (Ambrosian Chant, Transitorium)
Victimae paschali laudes (Gregorian Chant, Sequence)
Ascensione del Signore – Ascension of the Lord
Psallite Domino (Ambrosian Chant, Ingressa)
Viri Galilei (Gregorian Chant, Introit)
Pentecoste – Pentecost, Mass of the Day
Ultimo festivitatis die dicebat Iesus (Ambrosian Chant, Confractorium)
Veni Sancte Spiritus (Gregorian Chant – Sequence)
TUESDAY 8 JULY 2025
Italian Ostinatos
The trio sonatas on ostinato bass in Naples, Rome and Venice.
Andrea Falconieri (1585 – 1656)
Trio sonata in Sol minore “Passacalle”
The first book of songs, follies […], Naples, 1650
Arcangelo Corelli (1653 -1713)
Trio sonata in Sol maggiore “Ciacona”
Op. 2 n. 12, Rome, 1685
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Trio sonata in Re minore “La Follia”
Op. 1 n. 12, Venice, 1705
Ensemble OFFICIUM MUSICUM
Violin I: Angelo Basile
Violin II: Riccardo D’Ariano
Cello: Chiara Cardelli
Continuous bass: Sonia Hrechorowicz
TUESDAY 15 JULY 2025
MILAN DUOMO’S MUSIC CHAPEL
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 – 1594)
Princeps Musicae
Dies sanctificatus
(Motecta Festorum Totius Anni cum Communi Sanctorum Liber Primus [Venetiis, apud filios Antonii Gardani 1571])
Tribus miraculis
(Motecta Festorum Totius Anni cum Communi Sanctorum Liber Primus [Venetiis, apud filios Antonii Gardani 1571])
Super flumina Babylonis
(Liber II Motectorum Quatuor Vocum [Mediolani, apud Franciscum & Hæredes Simonis Tini 1587])
Sicut cervus
(Motectorum Quatuor Vocum [Mediolani, apud Franciscum & Haeredes Simonis Tini 1587])
Iesu iunxit se discipulis suis in via
(Motecta Festorum Totius Anni cum Communi Sanctorum Liber Primus [Venetiis, apud filios Antonii Gardani 1571])
Veni, dilecte mi
(Motettorum quinque vocibus. Liber quartus [Cantico dei Cantici – Song of Songs]
[Romae, Apud Alexandrum Gardanum, 1583/1584])
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FOR INFO AND BOOKINGS:
VENERANDA FABBRICA DEL DUOMO DI MILANO
Via Carlo Maria Martini, 1 – 20122 Milano
Tel. +39.02.72023375 – [email protected]
