As much as I love the Brahms, Fauré, Mozart, and other requiems, It’s the most powerful thing I’ve ever sung

The ‘Libera me,’ I feel like I am personally begging God to spare me from eternalĭamnation… and I’m not even religious. Of the double choruses, or the beauty and terror of the music,” she said. “I don’t know if I can express how much more it is than the complexity Verdi’s Requiem several times, to describe the experience from the performer’s I asked a friend, Patty Kofron, a versatile mezzo-soprano who has sung Giuseppe We are thrilled to welcome Otto Edelmann Competition First Prize winner, soprano Adriana Gonzalez Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program graduate, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford internationally acclaimed tenor Piero Pretti and bass Joshua Bloom when they join the Dallas Symphony Chorus and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to perform this monumental piece.

While not a religious man, Verdi filled this work, in memory of Manzoni, with emotional impact and religious fervor that begins and ends in tranquility. The work is the musical setting of a Catholic Mass, written in memory of Italian poet, philosopher and novelist, Alessandro Manzoni and first performed in San Marco church in Milan. The orchestra, chorus, and virtuosic soloists tell a story filled with whirlwind emotions moving through profound loss, terror, and anger, and ending with a sense of eternal peace. With its white-hot moments of bravado alternating with some of the most serene moments of Verdi’s music, his Requiem is a monumental work. Music Director Fabio Luisi has been eager to conduct Verdi’s Requiem since he began his tenure with the DSO.

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