Verdi's Requiem

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French conductor Ludovic Mortlot conducts Verdi's Requiem performed by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and other artists at L’Auditori.

Ludovic Morlot closes the season with the premiere of a work for baritone and orchestra. L’Auditori has commissioned this piece from not one but three of Catalonia’s most outstanding home-grown composers: Raquel García-Tomás, Joan Magrané and Octavi Rumbau. It is not the first time they have collaborated; the three have already written one opera together, thanks to an initiative from the cultural organization Òpera de butxaca i nova creació.

Giuseppe Verdi attempted a similar collaboration when various musicians were commissioned to compose a requiem on the occasion of Rossini’s death, but the work was never performed. Years later, with the loss of the poet Alessandro Manzoni – Verdi’s personal friend and a fellow supporter of Italian unification – the composer retrieved the Libera me he had prepared for Rossini, and used it as a basis for his Messa da Requiem. 

Written for four soloists, double choir and orchestra, the Requiem brings this season at L’Auditori to a close.

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