Verdi-Requiem: 7. Sinfoniekonzert

In the organizer's words:

Pure drama on the concert stage with brilliant international soloists

General Music Director Leo McFall is an avowed Verdi fan. He is particularly fascinated by the unadorned truth that speaks through all his operatic characters - even the darkest villains - in his music. For Leo McFall, the composition of the Requiem breathes deep compassion for all of humanity. One can sense Giuseppe Verdi's "raging seriousness", as the music critic Alex Ross puts it in a nutshell. When Verdi learned of the death of his highly esteemed poet and political companion Alessandro Manzoni in 1873, he wrote this powerful composition. In fact, it is less reminiscent of a classical funeral mass than a dramatic opera. Intimacy, despair, pain and consolation resound in poignant musical contrasts, and the music poses the big questions of where people come from and where they are going.
The choir, which is represented on an extra-large scale in Wiesbaden, plays a special role here, as do the soloists. The ensemble around the South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, most recently winner of the Herbert von Karajan Prize and BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, consists of proven specialists in Verdi's theatrical timbres.

A production of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden