Change of soloist: Francesco Pio Galasso has had to cancel his participation in this concert for health reasons. He will be replaced by tenor Andrei Danilov.

A monumental mass for the dead with all of the opera’s spectacle and drama

A monumental mass for the dead with all of the opera’s spectacle and drama

A monumental mass for the dead with all of the opera’s spectacle and drama

A monumental mass for the dead with all of the opera’s spectacle and drama

New Music

Symphonic

OBC

VERDI´S REQUIEM‎

Ludovic Morlot, Joyce El-Khoury, Rinat Shaham, Andrei Danilov, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Josep-Ramon Olivé

Dates
May 31 and June 1 and 2, 2024
Price
From €25 to €55
Location
Sala 1 Pau Casals
Duration aprox.
120'
Artists
Josep-Ramon Olivé
Rinat Shaham
Joyce El-Khoury
Andrei Danilov
Dmitry Belosselskiy
Orfeó Català
OBC
Ludovic Morlot

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Repertoire

Octavi Rumbau, Joan Magrané and Raquel García-Tomás: Tres elegies for baritone and orchestra (2024) 15′ – World premiere, commissioned by L’Auditori
Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem (1874-75) 84′

ARTISTS

Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC
Joyce El-Khoury, soprano (Verdi)
Rinat Shaham, mezzo-soprano (Verdi)
Andrei Danilov, tenor (Verdi)
Josep-Ramon Olivé, baritone (García-Tomás, Magrané, Rumbau)
Dmitry Belosselskiy, bass (Verdi)
Orfeó Català
Ludovic Morlot, conductor

Programme

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: they have already written one opera together, thanks to an initiative from the cultural organisation 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 to a close.