SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass

(89 min; 2002; dvd)

With Angela Gheorghiu (soprano); Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano); Roberto Alagna (tenor); Julian Konstantinov (bass)

 

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Claudio Abbado

 

The Requiem Mass is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass for four soloists, double choir and orchestra. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist whom Verdi admired