Verdi Requiem

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Event Verdi Requiem
Venue Auckland Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand
First Date 7 July 2022
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description ‘Opera in ecclesiastical dress’, sniffed one of Verdi’s contemporaries, completely missing the point. A better assessment from a Verdi biographer: the Requiem is ‘his genius at its most concentrated’. Liberated from the need for plot and characters Verdi poured everything he knew about music into the Requiem.
The result is a supremely beautiful work with moments of both awe-inspiring operatic grandeur and intimate, hushed reflection.
Primary Genre Music Theatre
Organisations
Event Status Completed
Event Identifier 213193
Dataset Theatre Aotearoa