Details
Royal Northern College of Music
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9RD
England
Programme
Gioachino Rossini – William Tell: Overture
Giuseppe Verdi – Requiem: Libera me
Performers
Sinéad Campbell-Wallace – soprano
Emily Howard Cobley – Alto
Lawrence Thackeray – Tenor
Fionn Ó hAlmhain – Bass
Tom Newall – Conductor
Salford Choral Society
Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra
Programme Note
Its inception prompted by Rossini’s death, Verdi’s Requiem, sometimes called his ‘finest opera’, combines drama with sincerity. In the words of Brahms, ‘Verdi's Requiem is a work of genius’.