Italy

The annual sixteen-day concert tour took the St. Martin’s choir boys first to Verona. In Verona, the choir sang a successful concert and a church service. In addition to a stroll through the city, the choir visited the opera Nabucco in the Arena di Verona.
On the third day of the concert tour the choir went to Assisi. There the choir sang a concert in the famous Basilica of San Francesco, where Saint Francis of Assisi is buried.
The Basilica impressed with famous paintings such as the Sermon on Birds by Giotto di Bondone.
After the impressive stay in Assisi, the choir traveled to Subiaco, which is the twin town of Ochsenhausen. In Subiaco, the choir explored the Benedictine monastery of San Benedetto and sang a beautiful and well-attended concert in the Cathedral of San Andrea
Afterwards the choir visited the capital of Italy. In Rome, the choir said a concert in front of almost exclusively domestic audience, because at the same time the great pilgrimage of altar boys took place in Rome. In very hot temperatures, the choir also visited the most important sights of Rome.
Afterwards they went via Pistoia to the twin town of Biberach, to Asti. In Asti the choir sang a service in the church of San Domenico Savio and a very successful concert in the church of San Secondo with works by Palestrina, Mozart and Wagner. At the latest when the encore Rund um mich her ist alles Freude was played, the choir boys sang themselves into the hearts of the many listeners from Asti. An exclusive guided tour through the city of towers, as Asti is also called, rounded off the program.
As a crowning finale to the concert tour, the choir went camping for six days near Innsbruck. There, the singers recovered from the stresses and strains of a tour by playing soccer, cross-country games, night hikes and campfires. But even here it did not go completely without singing. The St. Martin’s choir boys celebrated a church service in the tent camp together with the boys and girls of the German Scout Association St. George, who were also present there, and accompanied it musically.