In an environment of little food, no medical care, disease, infestation, and fear for their lives, professional conductor Rafael Schachter and other Jews formed a chorus, memorized Giuseppe Verdi’s ...

Verdi’s Requiem, the composer’s epic, dramatic, mood-swinging treatment of an ancient Catholic funeral mass, is a significant milestone for any conductor. “It’s one of those pieces that you study and ...

If a requiem looms large among a composer's works, especially one written near the end of his or her life or in a morbid frame of mind, it inevitably becomes an unofficial, autobiographical epitaph.

For a time, Chicago Symphony music director emeritus Riccardo Muti planned to end the 2024/25 downtown season with Hector Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust,” not heard at Orchestra Hall since 2008.

The Carmel Symphony Orchestra and Anderson University choirs will perform Verdi's Requiem on April 13 at the Palladium, part of The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, IN. This partnership will ...

Like a baseball game rescheduled after a rainout, there was one more concert on the San Francisco Symphony’s season calendar after last week’s grand finale with outgoing Music Director Esa-Pekka ...

The San Francisco Symphony canceled its season opener of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem just two hours before opening night on Thursday after union members of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus announced a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The company’s first performance inside its theater since March 2020 was an inspired rendition of Verdi’s Requiem. By Anthony Tommasini ...