Name: Verdis Requiem med Bertrand de Billy
Start: 2023-08-25
End: 2023-08-25
Location: Operaen (Copenhagen Opera House)

Organization

Conductor

Bertrand de Billy

Singer

Soprano

Guanqun Yu

Mezzo-soprano

Judit Kutasi

Tenor

Joshua Guerrero

Bass

Alexander Vinogradov

Royal Danish Opera

Orchestra

Det Kongelige Kapel

Others

Det Kongelige Operakor

Malmö Opera Choir

Verdis Requiem med Bertrand de Billy

Copenhagen

Denmark

Operaen (Copenhagen Opera House)

Store Scene

Verdis Requiem med Bertrand de Billy: Messa da Requiem Verdi

Public

Requiem Mass

Approved

Verdis mesterværk med orkester, kor og internationale solister

Det Kongelige Kapel fylder i denne sæson 575 år. Orkestret markerer jubilæet ved fire symfonikoncerter med musik fra de forskellige kunstarter, som Kapellets repertoire spænder over.

Jubilæumsfesten åbnes med Verdis Requiem, der næppe kommer tættere på opera uden at være det. Værket kræver store, dramatiske stemmer, et stort Verdi-orkester og hele følelsesregistret er i spil. Verdis kæmpeværk opføres med et internationalt firkløver af solister, Det Kongelige Kapel, Det Kongelige Operakor og Malmö Operakör med den franske dirigent, Bertrand de Billy i spidsen.

Ved Rossinis død i 1868 forsøgte Verdi at få kolleger med på idéen om at skrive en fælles hyldest-dødsmesse. Verdi skrev en Libera me-sats, men værket blev aldrig realiseret. Da den italienske nationaldigter Manzoni gik bort fem år senere, tog en dybt berørt Verdi atter fat på idéen om et storslået requiem baseret på den romersk-katolske liturgi.

Operaveteranen Verdi kaster sig ud i en for ham ukendt genre. Musikken er imidlertid lige så højspændt dramatisk som hans sceniske musikproduktion og fuld af lidenskab, vrede, sorg, anger og accept - alle følelser er i spil og forløses. Værkets dramatiske kvaliteter har bevirket, at ikke mindst den voldsomme Dies irae-sats er anvendt i flere film lige fra Den enfoldige morder til Mad Max: Fury Road.

Verdis Requiem synges på latin med danske overtekster.

dansk

Verdi's masterpiece with orchestra, choir and international soloists

The Royal Chapel is 575 years old this season. The orchestra marks the anniversary with four symphony concerts with music from the various art forms that the Kapellet's repertoire spans.

The anniversary party opens with Verdi's Requiem, which is hardly closer to opera than it is. The work requires large, dramatic voices, a large Verdi orchestra and the entire range of emotions is in play. Verdi's masterpiece is performed with an international quartet of soloists, the Royal Chapel, the Royal Opera Chorus and the Malmö Opera Chorus, led by the French conductor, Bertrand de Billy.

Upon Rossini's death in 1868, Verdi tried to get colleagues on board with the idea of ​​writing a joint tribute-death mass. Verdi wrote a Libera me movement, but the work was never realized. When Italy's national poet Manzoni passed away five years later, a deeply moved Verdi revisited the idea of ​​a grand requiem based on the Roman Catholic liturgy.

Opera veteran Verdi throws himself into a genre unknown to him. However, the music is as high-strung dramatic as his scenic music production and full of passion, anger, sorrow, remorse and acceptance - all emotions are in play and released. The work's dramatic qualities have meant that, not least, the violent Dies irae movement has been used in several films, from The Simple Murderer to Mad Max: Fury Road .

Verdi's Requiem is sung in Latin with Danish surtitles.

English

Verdis Requiem med Bertrand de Billy by Verdi, Fri 25 Aug 2023, From (2023/2023), Conductor Bertrand de Billy, Operaen (Copenhagen Opera House), Copenhagen, Denmark

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