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Prom 23: Verdi – Requiem

Part of the Proms 2015 Series

Add to my Calendar 02-08-2015 20:00 02-08-2015 22:00 36 Prom 23: Verdi – Requiem After a powerfully disquieting performance of Strauss’s Salome last year, Donald Runnicles returns for the first of two appearances this summer, bringing the chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the BBC SSO together for Verdi’s Requiem - a work conductor Hans von Bülow described as ‘an opera in ecclesiastical garb’, written for the concert hall but distilling all the drama and intensity of the stage. At its core is the extended Dies irae sequence - a Day of Judgement whose terrors are not easily forgotten. The international cast of soloists includes Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill. There will be no interval Royal Albert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England

Programme

Giuseppe Verdi – Requiem: Libera me

Performers

Angela Meade – soprano
 Karen Cargill – mezzo-soprano
 Yosep Kang – tenor
 Raymond Aceto – Bass
 Donald Runnicles – Conductor

Concert Association of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

After a powerfully disquieting performance of Strauss’s Salome last year, Donald Runnicles returns for the first of two appearances this summer, bringing the chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the BBC SSO together for Verdi’s Requiem - a work conductor Hans von Bülow described as ‘an opera in ecclesiastical garb’, written for the concert hall but distilling all the drama and intensity of the stage. At its core is the extended Dies irae sequence - a Day of Judgement whose terrors are not easily forgotten. The international cast of soloists includes Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill.

There will be no interval

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