Verdi Requiem

Verdi Messa da Requiem

Lauren Fagan soprano
Maria Schellenberg mezzo-soprano
David Junghoon Kim tenor
Blaise Malaba bass
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Marios Papadopoulos conductor

There is no more dramatic setting of the Requiem Mass in the repertory than Giuseppe Verdi’s, written to commemorate friends but giving full voice to the composer’s theatrical instincts and vivid response to religious imagery and poetry. World-class soloists and the massed voices of the Crouch End Festival Chorus gather at the Sheldonian Theatre for this performance of Verdi’s soul-stirring work of awe and redemption, often referred to as ‘an opera in disguise’, with the full force of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and its Music Director, Marios Papadopoulos.