Undoubtedly, it is one of the composer's masterpieces, in which he concentrates his musical thought in a more efficient and explosive way, in addition to offering "all the purely musical resources he had been developing during the course of twenty-three operas", in words of Budden. Thus, while for some it is "a prepotent profession of Catholic faith", for others it represents an unusual Requiem: "agnostic, dramatic and popular". This is how Verdi, above Mozart or Rossini, distances himself from the rituals of the liturgy in a context in which the division between Church and State sneaked into the individual search for the path to faith. It is something else: a totally radical change in the way in which the society of that time established its relationship with the religious.
In 2008 she was played by the Philarmonia Orchestra, under the baton of Riccardo Muti, with the Orfeón Donostiarra and the soprano Tatiana Serjan, the mezzo Ekaterina Gubanova, the tenor Giuseppe Sabatini and the bass Petri Lindroos in the vocal roles.Īs the music teacher points out José Ramón Tapia, the merits of this work transcend the fact of being simply "the summit of liturgical music of the nineteenth century", according to the reflection of the Verdian expert Julian Budden. It should be remembered that this is not the first time that this work is represented in the FIMC. Tickets are available at and on the usual platforms of the two capital auditoriums. The public interested in knowing in advance more details about this production can attend the introductory talk that will be offered one hour before the concert (7:00 pm) in the same auditoriums, in charge of the musician and disseminator Ricardo Ducatenzeiler, with the support of Fundación Cepsa. It has come to be considered as one of the "best operas" of Verdi, despite being an oratorio.
With dizzying rhythms, sublime melodies and dramatic contrasts, in this great work the music flows, presents beautiful sound effects and the vocal part fills with an enormous warmth, turning this Requiem of Verdi more in a lament before death than in a sample of faith in salvation and eternal life: the most human Mass for the dead ever sung.įor the director of the festival, Jorge Perdigón, Requiem de Verdi is one of the most important works of the symphonic-choral repertoire, together with Mozart, the 9th Beethoven and the Passion According to San Juan of Bach. The soprano Mariangela Sicilia, the mezzo Marianna Pizzolato, the tenor from Tenerife Celso will perform as soloists Albelo and bass Welshman Bryn Terfel, considered one of the most important lyric singers of his generation. The 35 Canary Islands International Music Festival (FIMC) program for Saturday, January 19, at 8:00 pm, at the Adán Martín de Tenerife Auditorium, and a day later, at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium from Las Palmas, Requiem of Verdi, performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria, under the direction of Karel Mark Chichon, next to the State Choir of Kaunas and members of the National Opera Choir of Lithuania.