Verdi Requiem
Event Date: 03/09/2023, 03:00 pm
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Filled with drama and extraordinary lyricism, hearing the Requiem live in performance is – in the words of conductor and artistic director Paul Terracini – “an experience that no-one should miss”!
Verdi’s epic Requiem Mass, a work considered by some to be his greatest masterpiece, had an extraordinary gestation.
The composer was initially asked to contribute a single movement to a Requiem Mass in memory of fellow Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.
However, the planned performance of this new work was eventually abandoned. Years later in 1873, when Alessandro Manzoni died, Verdi decided that he would not make the same mistake and would compose an entire Requiem Mass on his own.
He took the “Libera Me” that he had already written, and reworked it to become part of a new Requiem Mass.
Verdi’s Requiem Mass follows to some degree the traditional sequence of the Latin requiem mass but was modified by the composer in a way he considered more dramatic.
The result was a work described by critic Hans von Bulow as an “opera, in church vestments.”
Composed at a time when many considered that Verdi would soon retire, Verdi’s Requiem Mass confirmed his place as one of Italy’s greatest composers.
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Chatswood New South Wales,2067
