Wellber Omer-Meir © Luca Pezzani
Orchester und Chor der Volksoper Wien / Wiener Singakademie / Wellber
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Saturday
28
October
2023
19:30 – ca. 21:00
Großer Saal
Performers
Orchester der Volksoper Wien
Chor der Volksoper Wien, Chor
Einstudierung: Roger Díaz-Cajamarca
Wiener Singakademie
Einstudierung: Heinz Ferlesch
Marina Rebeka, Sopran
Ekaterina Semenchuk, Mezzosopran
Michael Spyres, Tenor
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Bass
Omer Meir Wellber, Dirigent
Programme
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem (1868–1874)
Note
Medienpartner Ö1 Club
Ewa Płonka musste ihre Mitwirkung aus gesundheitlichen Gründen kurzfristig absagen. Wir danken Marina Rebeka, die sich spontan bereit erklärt hat, den Sopranpart zu übernehmen.
Stefan Cerny musste aus gesundheitlichen Gründen absagen. Den Bass singt nun Ferruccio Furlanetto.
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Links
https://www.wienersingakademie.at
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Church music in operatic guise
Giuseppe Verdi's »Messa da Requiem« is considered by many to be the most important church music work after Beethoven's »Missa solemnis«. However, this requiem mass, composed under the impression of the death of the writer Alessandro Manzoni, is just as unsuitable for liturgical use as Beethoven's festive mass. In both cases, the duration of the performance is much too long, the instrumentation much too large, and last but not least, the specific artistic weight much too great. Thus, both works have established themselves as full-length concert works, whereby the »Messa da Requiem« in no way denies the fact that its author was predominantly active as an opera composer. It is therefore all the more fitting that it is now being performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus by the orchestra and chorus (augmented by the Vienna Singakademie) of the Volksoper Wien, and that it is being conducted by the latter's music director Omer Meir Wellber. Internationally acclaimed opera stars are also the soloists of this evening.
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