Requiem

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In 1873, upset by the disappearance of Alessandro Manzoni, literary figure of Italian independence, Verdi decided to confront the Mass of the Dead. His Requiem was created on May 22, 1874 for the first anniversary of the poet's death. Inhabited religious work, born under the pen of a composer whose life had long scandalized the church, the Requiem , by its vocal and orchestral writing of an unprecedented scale, exceeds all measure in order to face the unspeakable of death. and mourning. The show will be carried by part of the cast scheduled for Goethe's Scenes from Faust (to which is added the soprano Katherine Broderick), while preserving the meeting of two choirs, that of the Montpellier Opera and the Flanders Opera.