The Opéra de Monte-Carlo has announced a conductor change for its performance of Verdi’s Requiem on Nov. 2, 2023. The company said, “We regret to inform you that Daniel Barenboim has had to cancel his participation in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem on 2nd November due to medical complications. He had generously accepted to conduct this project, which was particularly dear to {…}
Matthew Coleridge’s “REQUIEM” is scheduled for a performance at the Truro Cathedral on Sept. 23. Soprano soloist Kirsten Mulcahy is joined by the Requiem in a Day choir and cellist Jayden Lamcellari. The composer conducts. “REQUIEM” was composed in 2014-15 and is Coleridge’s first major composition and his most frequently-performed work. In 2023, “REQUIEM” landed in the ClassicFM Hall of {…}
The Theater St. Gallen and the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen will team up to present Verdi’s “Requiem” starting on May 6, 2023 at 7 p.m. The famed work will be presented in a staged production by Krystian Lada with Modestas Pitrenas conducting. The opera will feature soprano Hulkar Sabirova, mezzo-soprano Martina Belli, tenor Christopher Sokolowski, and bass Msimelelo Mbali. The production {…}
“Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín” will take the stage of The Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland on April 20, 2022. Created by Murry Sidlin, the performance features Verdi’s Requiem performed alongside historic film and testimony from survivors of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp during World War II where the Requiem was performed 16 times as an act of defiance. {…}
(Credit: Basel.com) Theater Basel has announced changes for two of its scheduled productions in the 2020-21 season. Per an official statement on the company’s website, Monteverdi’s “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria” will be postponed until the 2021-22 season, while the production of Mozart’s “Requiem” will be postponed until the 2023-24 season. “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria” was supposed to star {…}
(Credit: https://lagenda.org/) Auditorio de Tenerife will present Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau’s opera “La Voix Humaine” on Jan. 22 and 23, 2021. The famed monopera will star soprano Carmen Acosta and feature Juan Francisco Parra conduct and performing at the piano. The opera will be directed by Víctor Manuel Dogar. Lighting design is by Aaron S. Ramos with costume and {…}
(Credit: Christopher Pledger/ Shirley Suarez / English National Opera official website / Gerard Collett) The English National Opera has announced that it will reopen the London Coliseum on Nov. 6 & 7, 2020, for the two special performances of Mozart’s “Requiem.” The performances will star mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn, tenor Toby Spence, and bass Brindley Sherratt. The {…}
(Credit: Kate Glicksberg) The season’s final performance of the Verdi Requiem at the recently opened (and rather amazing) Hudson Yards Shed was something unexpectedly moving, with a very high emotional level. To be clear, this was not just some other Verdi Requiem. Let’s start with the venue itself. On this first visit, the Shed’s “McCourt” theater space appears grand, with {…}
(Credit: Official Website) The Shed is set to present Verdi’s Requiem on Nov. 19-24, 2019. The performance will feature musicAeterna and conductor Teodor Currentzis in the organization’s North American debut. The production of the work will feature a specially commissioned cinematic artwork by avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas. Mekas, who recently passed away at age 96, drew inspiration from text by {…}
Verdi’s Requiem is one of the most powerful pieces of music ever created. When performed to its maximum expression it can be a transformative experience, one full of fear, intense, suffering, but even hope. The Oratorio Society of New York performed the masterpiece at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, May 9, 2019, in a performance that was undeniably potent, though perhaps {…}
The Verdi “Requiem” is an interesting work in the canon of both Verdi and choral music, for a number of reasons. It would certainly seem an unusual piece for the notoriously non-religious Verdi, who might even seem anti-clerical. Add to that the fact that the “requiem” — a hit, if you will, performed globally by Verdi, from Milan to Paris {…}