VERDI Requiem
Carolina Castells, soprano
Jane Dutton, mezzo soprano
Nathan Granner, tenor
Kevin Deas, bass
Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale
Also playing Sunday, March 20 at 2:30 p.m. at The Concert Hall at College Community.
Orchestra Iowa’s inaugural performance in the new state-of-the-art Concert Hall at College Community seems the perfect setting for Verdi’s grand Requiem Mass—an epic work that everyone should hear live at least once in their lifetime.
By the time that Verdi had penned this legendary Requiem, he was already widely known as one of the most fashionable composers in all of Europe. Coming twenty years after the early success of his operatic stardom, the Requiem was performed all over Italy, in Paris, London, Vienna, and even in America within a year of its premier in 1874.
This masterpiece is full-blooded, scarily passionate, achingly beautiful, and deserves its place as one of Verdi’s most popular compositions.
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