Name: War Requiem
Start: 2023-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-05-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Davies Symphony Hall

Organization

Conductor

Philippe Jordan

Singer

Tenor

Ian Bostridge

Baritone

Iain Paterson

Bass

Chorus master

Kent Jue

Soprano

Jennifer Holloway

Others

San Francisco Symphony Chorus

Orchestra

San Francisco Symphony

Ragazzi Boys Chorus

War Requiem

San Francisco

United States

Davies Symphony Hall

War Requiem Britten

Public

Anna-Maria Gkouni

Approved

Twenty-two years after Coventry Cathedral was destroyed in a World War II air raid, Benjamin Britten wrote his War Requiem to celebrate the consecration of a new cathedral built amid the ruins of the first one. With contrasting texts from the Latin Requiem mass and WWI poet Wilfred Owen, the music embodies Britten’s deeply held pacifist beliefs. Conductor Philippe Jordan leads the SF Symphony, Chorus, and soloists in Britten’s haunting liturgy.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble