Music programs

A musical journey through some of the most renowned composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular attention to the dramas of contemporary times, such as war and the Vajont disaster. Accompanied by piano, cello, and percussion, the Polifonico’s project unfolds from the melodies of Orthodox and Catholic liturgy to embrace selected examples of popular music that have already become part of the world’s musical heritage.

Ensemble: TTBB, piano, cello, percussion

Genesis is an innovative musical and theatrical project featuring world premiere compositions commissioned by the Coro Polifonico di Ruda from composer Renato Miani. The work—also conceived as a tribute to the UNESCO cities of Aquileia, Cividale del Friuli, and Palmanova—is scheduled to be performed in Friuli Venezia Giulia between late 2026 and the early months of 2027.
Under the supervision of historian Angelo Floramo, three female figures—each the protagonist of a distinct historical event—have been identified, with the aim of raising public awareness about the deeply topical tragedy of femicide.
The score is divided into three tableaux: Roman Aquileia, Lombard Cividale, and Venetian Palmanova. In each section, Floramo places at the center of the stage a female figure—Bassilla for Aquileia, Romilda for Cividale, and Fatma of Bosnia for Palmanova—who becomes the protagonist of the respective musical and theatrical segments, in a crescendo of dramatic intensity that inevitably draws the audience’s attention to the tragedies of everyday life, particularly in contemporary Italy.
 

Sacredness and spirituality in the music of contemporary composers such as Giovanni Bonato, Alessio Domini, Ola Gjelo, Morten Lauridsen, Kentaro Sato and Eric Whitacre, in a journey between eternal themes and modern sounds.

Instrumentation: TTBB choir, piano and percussions.

The elegance of lieder and the refined taste of French chansons compared. On the program music by Schubert, Brahms, Saint Saens and Poulenc, which highlight the beauty of the music and poetic texts of the two musical and poetic worlds in comparison.

Instrumentation: TTBB choir, solo tenor and piano.

From Seirenes by the contemporary composer Alessio Domini, based on texts by Leonardo da Vinci and Homer, to the Anguane of Canti rocciosi by Giovanni Sollima up to the famous Suite for Vajont by Remo Anzovino, water in choral music is now a place for enchanted creatures, an element vital but also destructive power.

Instrumentation: TTBB choir, piano and percussions.

A tribute in the Friulian language to the musical tradition of their land, with beautiful popular original songs in which the themes of love, emigration and war are interpreted with the intensity of their modernity.

Instrumentation: TTBB choir

From Vangelis to John Williams, from Lucio Dalla to Nicola Piovani, from Nino Rota to Hans Zimmer, the powerful virile voices lightly reinterpret fascinating music from soundtracks and suggestive pages of pop music, revisited by all original arrangements for the formation.

Instrumentation: TTBB choir, piano, cello and percussions