The Easter cantata Passio et Resurrectio, by the contemporary Neapolitan composer, Sergio Rendine, is a musical setting of the feelings expressed by ordinary people about the most important event in the church calendar, the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. Taking its inspiration from folk traditions from throughout Southern Italy and set to texts in dialect and Italian, the Cantata displays a masterful use of simple yet expressive structures in a neoromantic vein. It was written for Good Friday in the Jubilee Year of 2000 and broadcast after the late Pope’s traditional Via Crucis ceremony in Rome.