Verdi's Requiem revisited on Sunday on Arte (still on)

From Il Duomo Verdi's Requiem Sunday September the 7th .

Rene Pape, leaving at the end of the concert.

The audience

Libera me...

Elina Garanca

On Arte Concert Live last sunday : heartfelt Requiem dedicated to the  too many lost souls from the Lombardy region during the first episode of the  Covid 19.

La  Scala Chorus and Orchestra, and the four soloists under Riccardo Chailly's  conducting were all joining in  for  a total heartbreaking rendition. Probably because of the setting in Il Duomo and not at La Scala,  that event was really felt through the screen as true to life, allowing us to meditate while the camera was embracing both architecture, paintings, soloists, conductor, the chorus and the audience. I had the feeling I was also in the picture as the intensity of that performance  was so sorrowful and tear -jerking.

the Soloist singers

Riccardo Chailly.

( I did not chance short videos because these days I fairly well  know they disappear : so many live documents from Youbue  including some live ones of mine have disappeared.  I understood the messages of the various protective laws which I do not feel like discussing here at any moment.)

It is possible to listen to this masterpiece again and again on Arte Live Concert. 

I could not help remembering my discovery of La Scala with the same conductor and of course this masterpiece which I have tried to understand so many times in my  musical 'life'. It was in 2014.

https://singerforallseasons.blogspot.com/2014/10/la-scala-for-two-requiem-for-claudio.html 

Those were the days of nearly 'youth' for me...And who could foresee what the twenties would bring to us all around the world ? Probably it is a masked future for all of us... isn't the future always masked ?

Libera Me.... libera Me.... last sustained notes from a poignant soprano accompanied by almost whispering  chords....to be listened to again and again...before it all vanishes.....from the Online World.

•  Francesco Meli
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