Cast & Crew
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis
– musicAeterna Orchestra
– musicAeterna Choir
– Zarina Abaeva
– Ève-Maud Hubeaux
– Dmytro Popov
– Tareq Nazmi
Director – François-René Martin
Description
Verdi’s Requiem is still heard mainly in theatre and concert halls. However, the author himself intended this composition to be performed in church, and on special occasions.
19th-century maestro Hans von Bülow ironically described the Requiem as “an opera in ecclesiastical garb”. While it is true that the imposing instrumentation and dramatic effects of Verdi’s work affirm its close ties to its creator’s signature musical art, it simultaneously frustrates the traditional expectations of the heavily codified Requiem genre. There is profound sincerity and vibrant faith in this masterpiece composed in honor of the hero of Italian unification, the writer Alessandro Manzoni. A friend of Verdi’s, Manzoni was extremely active in fighting for the founding of the Italian nation, and the Requiem was performed for the first time on the anniversary of the writer’s death. The only mass Verdi ever wrote, it is a mix of his operatic genius and his very personal homage to a dear friend.
Performed by soloists and musicAeterna choir and orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem seems to return from the concert stage into the temple space. The seven parts of the Requiem become steps on the way to comprehending the sacrament of death, the operatic character of orchestral and vocal writing acquires the strictness of the Catholic tradition, and musical images of rage, despair, and rebellion against the inevitable end are crowned with appeasement.
I - REQUIEM E KYRIE
II.1 - DIES IRAE
III - OFFERTARIO
IV - SANCTUS
V - AGNUS DEI
VI - LUX AETERNA
VII - LIBERA ME
19th-century maestro Hans von Bülow ironically described the Requiem as “an opera in ecclesiastical garb”. While it is true that the imposing instrumentation and dramatic effects of Verdi’s work affirm its close ties to its creator’s signature musical art, it simultaneously frustrates the traditional expectations of the heavily codified Requiem genre. There is profound sincerity and vibrant faith in this masterpiece composed in honor of the hero of Italian unification, the writer Alessandro Manzoni. A friend of Verdi’s, Manzoni was extremely active in fighting for the founding of the Italian nation, and the Requiem was performed for the first time on the anniversary of the writer’s death. The only mass Verdi ever wrote, it is a mix of his operatic genius and his very personal homage to a dear friend.
Performed by soloists and musicAeterna choir and orchestra, Verdi’s Requiem seems to return from the concert stage into the temple space. The seven parts of the Requiem become steps on the way to comprehending the sacrament of death, the operatic character of orchestral and vocal writing acquires the strictness of the Catholic tradition, and musical images of rage, despair, and rebellion against the inevitable end are crowned with appeasement.
I - REQUIEM E KYRIE
II.1 - DIES IRAE
III - OFFERTARIO
IV - SANCTUS
V - AGNUS DEI
VI - LUX AETERNA
VII - LIBERA ME
Screenings
- Almaty
- Arkhangelsk
- Barnaul
- Cheboksary
- Chelyabinsk
- Cherepovets
- Chernogolovka
- Chita
- Engels
- Fryazino
- Irkutsk
- Ivanovo
- Izhevsk
- Kaliningrad
- Kazan
- Khabarovsk
- Krasnodar
- Krasnoyarsk
- Kursk
- Lipetsk
- Minsk
- Moscow
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Novokuznetsk
- Novosibirsk
- Omsk
- Orekhovo-Zuyevo
- Orenburg
- Penza
- Perm
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
- Petrozavodsk
- Pskov
- Rostov-on-Don
- Ryazan
- Saint Petersburg
- Samara
- Saransk
- Saratov
- Sergiyev Posad
- Sochi
- Stary Oskol
- Surgut
- Taganrog
- Tolyatti
- Tomsk
- Tver
- Tyumen
- Ufa
- Veliky Novgorod
- Vladivostok
- Volgograd
- Voronezh
- Yaroslavl
- Yekaterinburg
- Yuzhno-Sahalinks
- Zhigulyovsk
16 March 2025, Sunday,
15:00
Velikan Park
19 March 2025, Wednesday,
19:00
Cinema Park DELUXE Piter – Raduga
Cinema 5 Shkiperskiy
22 March 2025, Saturday,
17:15
Rodina
24 March 2025, Monday,
19:00
KARO 9 Varshavskiy Express
25 March 2025, Tuesday,
19:00
Formula Kino Galleria
Runtime
1 h. 33 min.without intervals
Language
Recorded screening: None, no subtitles
12+