![]() They weren’t perfect, but again, their performance opportunities have been limited of late. Some of the commenters in your earlier post were pretty harsh on the soloists. First performed in the church of San Marco, it was repeated a few days later at La Scala. PS: For not having performed together during the last 18 months, I thought the chorus and orchestra sang and played extremely well. Written by Neil Kurtzman 4th June 2018 Verdi’s towering Requiem Mass was written to mark the first anniversary of the death of Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) who was one of Verdi’s two cultural heroes of 19th century Italian art the other was Rossini. The last time as many as four performances were given. ![]() Start time: 10:00 AM on Capital Public Radio. Click for more information in the 'LINKS' area. I’m not a PBS subscriber, so I don’t have standing to complain! Since it was first performed at the Met in 1901, Verdis Requiem has been presented by the company 49 times, 13 of these led by Maestro Levine. The Mets performances of Verdi’s Requiem are dedicated to the memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Too bad, but them’s the breaks in Live TV. On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Yannick Nzet-Sguin led a commemorative performance of Verdi's Requiem. Somebody realized the error pretty quickly and switched back to the MET feed, so we saw Yannick standing stock still as after the music had faded away. So yes, it blotted out a bit of the hushed, unsettling ending of the Requiem. Looked like something or somebody accidentally kicked off a promo for the Vienna Philharmonic “summer night” concert – which had already been run several weeks ago. ![]() ![]() They didn’t run out of time – 2 hours were blocked out for the broadcast, and the oops happened at about 1:40. ![]()
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