L'Escolania

L'Escolania (Catalan pronunciation: [ɫəskuɫəˈni.ə]) choir school is a boys' choir of sopranos and altos based at the Benedictine abbey Santa Maria de Montserrat near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. When the repertory requires it, they are accompanied by the Montserrat Chapel Choir, composed of old choirboys and the monks of the Ministry Chapel Choir.

L'Escolania sings every day in the Basilica of Montserrat, often to a great affluence of pilgrims and visitors from all over the world. The midday Salve has become, over the past decades, the most visited daily act of the Sanctuary.

Since the end of the 1960s they have ventured further afield than the Basilica of Montserrat and given concerts in Catalonia and around the world. The most important in the last course have been with L'Orquestra de les Nacions, conducted by Jordi Savall, and their participation in the opera A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten in the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.

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