Organization

Conductor

Fabio Luisi

Singer

Soprano

Adriana González

Tenor

Piero Pretti

Mezzo-soprano

Tamara Mumford

Bass

Joshua Bloom

Chorus master

Ferdinando Sulla

Others

Dallas Symphony Chorus

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Verdi Requiem

Dallas

United States

Verdi Requiem: Messa da Requiem Verdi

Public

Requiem Mass

Anna-Maria Gkouni

Approved

VERDI Requiem

Music Director Fabio Luisi has been eager to conduct Verdi’s Requiem since he began his tenure with the DSO. 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. 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. 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. 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.

We are thrilled to welcome Otto Edelmann Competion First Prize winner, sporano Adriana Gonzalez; Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program graduate, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford; internationally acclaimed tenor Piero Pretti; and Troisième Prix du Concours Operalia/Domingo 2009 winner, bass Wenwei Zhang when they join the Dallas Symphony Chorus and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to perform this monumental piece.

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Cast

Crew

Ensemble