Messa per Rossini

Classical Music, Opera, Theatre

Messa per Rossini - Hungarian premiere 

Verdi and his contemporaries

-Buzzolla: Messa per Rossini - first movement (Introitus: Requiem - Kyrie)

-Bazzini: Messa per Rossini - second movement (Sequentia: Dies irae)

-Pedrotti: Messa per Rossini - third movement (Sequentia: Tuba mirum)

-Cagnoni: Messa per Rossini - fourth movement (Sequentia: Quid sum miser)

-Ricci: Messa per Rossini - fifth movement (Sequentia: Recordare Jesu)

-Nini: Messa per Rossini - sixth movement (Sequentia: Ingemisco)

-Boucheron: Messa per Rossini - seventh movement (Sequentia: Confutatis - Oro supplex)

-Coccia: Messa per Rossini - eighth movement (Sequentia: Lacrimosa - Amen)

-Gaspari: Messa per Rossini - ninth movement (Offertorium)

-Platania: Messa per Rossini - tenth movement (Sanctus)

-Rossi: Messa per Rossini - 11th movement (Agnus Dei)

-Mabellini: Messa per Rossini - 12th movement (Communio: Lux aeterna)

-Verdi: Messa per Rossini - 13th movement (Responsorium: Libera me)

When Rossini died in 1868, Verdi urged his compatriots to compose a requiem in memory of the departed master, with each composer taking on a single movement. The work was completed, but the originally planned premiere fell through, and it was not until 1988 that it was first played, in Stuttgart, with Helmuth Rilling conducting. At this All Saints' Day concert, the Müpa Budapest audience will get to witness what promises to be the unique experience of the Hungarian premiere, performed under the baton of Henrik Nánási by an international cast of soloists and the Hungarian Radio Music Ensembles.

Program and cast

Conductor:

Henrik Nánási 

Featuring:

soprano

Mária Celeng 

mezzo-soprano

Dorottya Láng 

tenor

Giorgio Berrugi 

baritone

Mihai Damian 

bass

Liang Li 

Hungarian Radio Choir (choirmaster: Zoltán Pad) 

Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra