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Verdi: Requiem
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The Requiem was performed for the first time on 22 May 1874. Many of Verdi's best-known contemporaries expressed great musical admiration for the work, with Brahms declaring its composer a genius. Julian Budden, one of the most noteworthy Verdi scholars, wrote that the Requiem shows the composer's brilliance in its most concentrated form: it was into this work that Verdi "poured all the purely musical resources that he had developed in the course of 26 operas, and which he could here exploit to the full without having to take into account the special demands which a stage action inevitably imposes.”
Program and cast
Conductor:
Riccardo Frizza
Featuring:
soprano
Leah Crocetto
alto
Szilvia Vörös
tenor
Piero Pretti
bass
Gábor Bretz
Hungarian Radio Choir (choirmaster: Zoltán Pad)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Palace of Arts Müpa Budapest
When Müpa Budapest, Hungary and its capital's new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than 100 years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and has no peers in the whole of Central Europe.
The creators of this ambitious project, the Trigránit Development Corporation, prime contractor Arcadom Construction and the Zoboki, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office, were driven by the desire to create a new European cultural citadel as part of the new Millennium City Centre complex along the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube waterfront. The result is a facility whose construction quality, appearance, functionality and 21st century technological infrastructure makes it ideally suited to productions of the highest standard. The building is also highly versatile and equipped to host performances of any genre and almost any scale.
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