Name: Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45
Start: 2022-09-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera Antwerp

Organization

Flanders Festival Ghent

Conductor

Alejo Pérez

Chorus master

Jan Schweiger

Singer

Soprano

Eleanor Lyons

Baritone

Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

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Choeur Opéra Vlaanderen

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Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

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Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45 -  (A German Requiem)

Ghent

Belgium

Sint-Baafskathedraal

Antwerp

Opera Antwerp

Ein deutsches Requiem Brahms

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A German Requiem

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Brahms's musical funeral mass expresses a universal search for solace and reconciliation with mortality.

Are you afraid of dying? Is there life after death? And how do you process the death of a loved one? For more than a thousand years, the musical Requiem has been helping humankind to come to terms with those inevitable questions. The repertoire extends from the Gregorian mass for the dead to polyphony and Baroque Requiems to romantic and contemporary versions. With Ein Deutsches Requiem, Johannes Brahms made a unique contribution to that illustrious tradition in 1868. In his mass for the dead, Latin is replaced by German and the Christian doctrine gives way to a universal, deeply human interpretation. In Brahms, the terrible trumpets of the Last Judgment are silent. Instead, we hear a comforting attempt at reconciliation with transience. Conducted by Alejo Pérez, the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Chorus and Orchestra are guests at the Ghent Festival of Flanders. Together they fill the impressive St. Bavo Cathedral with Brahms' comforting music of mourning. In Antwerp, Ein Deutsches Requiem will be performed at the Opera.

English

A German Requiem by Brahms, From (2022/2022), Conductor Alejo Pérez, Opera Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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