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Verdi: Messa da Requiem (2019)
Directed by François-René Martin
Music · 1h 33m
Guiseppe 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. Conducted by Teodor Currentzis and performed by soloists and musicAeterna choir and orchestra, Verdi’s famous funeral mass returns from the concert stage to Milan’s Church of San Marco, the same place where it was premiered in 1874. 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.
Cast
Teodor Currentzis
Zarina Abaeva
Ève-Maud Hubeaux
Dmytro Popov
Tareq Nazmi
Crew
- Director
- François-René Martin
- Director of Photography
- Octávio Espírito Santo
- Original Music Composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Producer
- Laëtitia Bartoli, Nicolas Bartholomée
Details
- Release date
- 2019-06-12
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Italian, Latin
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Gingerlemon, Euromedia, Calle Carmen, Little Tribeca