Buscador de críticas de conciertos de música clásica, ópera, ballet y danza | Messa da Requiem

La Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi y el Orfeón Donostiarra ponen un brillante punto final a la temporada con una colosal Messa da Requiem de Verdi.

Dramatismo, juegos sonoros orquestales, contrastes súbitos y un amplio desarrollo vocal tanto de los solistas como del coro fueron las fórmulas del éxito obtenido por David Afkham al frente de la Orquesta y Coro Nacional de España en una emotiva noche en el Festival de Granada.

Rara vez se aprecia un cuarteto solista tan compenetrado en el que los valores individuales están siempre dirigidos a favorecer la música en su conjunto, y en el que no sobresale uno sobre los otros por la amplitud de su timbre o de su gestualidad.

Slobodeniouk construyó con unos mimbres extraordinarios un magnífico e inolvidable Réquiem, no tanto por su grandiosidad como por su capacidad de hacernos sentir todo tipo de emociones a flor de piel.

Una propuesta participativa y multitudinaria para una interpretación con más espectáculo que emoción.

Christian Spuck revisits Verdi’s sublime Messa da Requiem with a host of gifted dancers and singers at the Zurich Opernhaus.

In Currentzis' vision, Verdi's Requiem was both a spectacle and a soul-searching exercise for the musicians, as well as for the listeners.

London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir paint a terrifying picture of hell and damnation at the Royal Festival Hall.

Riccardo Muti conducted a stirring performance of Verdi's Requiem to mark the 30th anniversary of Karajan's death.

Angela Meade shone in the soprano solo, beautifully backed by leader Tamas Kocsis, in the passage that segues into the stunning "Abraham thou didst promise" section.

The musicians of MusicAeterna were impassioned, engaged and energised into a single force in this performance of Verdi's Requiem at the Aix Easter Festival.

À la Philharmonie de Paris, le chef d'orchestre gréco-russe dirige ses troupes de MusicAeterna dans un Requiem de Verdi extraordinaire de minutie et de fluidité mêlées.

Perhaps feeling that the drama and emotion of the Ring Cycle wasn't enough for one year, Antonio Pappano assembled a strong quartet and deployed the ROH's forces in a powerful, moving performance of Verdi's Messa da Requiem.

This concert was inevitably the sum of far more than its parts, and not for nothing are the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantiquem, regarded as among the best in the world

Mit dem Verdi-Requiem gelingt Gardiner mit dem ORR und dem Monteverdi Choir ein überwältigendes Totendrama.

A quartet of superb soloists shine through an orchestral and choral performance of great precision to bring out Verdi’s powerful evocation of the terror of eternal damnation.

Domingo Hindoyan conducts a cast of Swedish performers in Verdi’s masterpiece, for the Baltic Sea Festival.

Dernière apparition de Tugan Sokhiev à la tête de l'ONCT cette saison, pour un Requiem de Verdi remarquable.

L’« opéra en robe d’ecclésiastique », s’est trouvé des voix de collection, un chef et un orchestre fabuleux ! Puissent Riccardo Chailly, son choeur et son orchestre nous en livrer encore, et longtemps !

The Met Opera's concert performance of Verdi's Requiem was an emotional tribute to Dmitri Hvorostovsky. 

A vividly dramatic take on Verdi's Requiem by Opera Australia allows chorus and orchestra to shine under Renato Palumbo, and reminds us why the work has been called “opera in church clothing”.

Verdi’s masterpiece dazzled a packed Festival Hall on Thursday night. 

Vlan ! Poum ! Vlan ! Poum ! Difficile de juger d’une œuvre telle que le Requiem de Verdi, si apte à imposer, si naturellement rythmée dans son déroulement. Car l’enjeu véritable, bien que latent, est celui de l’urgence partagée...

Premier grand rendez-vous lyrique de la saison 2016-2107, le Requiem de Verdi a tonné dans l’Auditorium de Lyon ce jeudi 24 septembre. Entre la transparence de la lumière divine et la foudre du jugement dernier, chœurs, solistes et instrumentistes ont épuisé toute la palette sonore à leur disposition.

Music-making in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt/Terezín continues to fascinate, baffle and inspire us.

Gianandrea Noseda leads a fiery account of Verdi's “opera in ecclesiastical garb” to open the LSO's new season.

In the penultimate concert of the 2016 Proms, Marin Alsop drew together some impressive forces for Verdi's Requiem, led by the remarkable soprano Tamara Wilson.

Requiem bien peu vibrant aux Chorégies d'Orange. La Messe des morts de Verdi paralysée entre une image omniprésente et une qualité musicale insuffisante. 

In celebration of the Atlanta Symphony's long-term music director Robert Shaw, the orchestra, its celebrated chorus and four effective soloists, presented an aggressive and often loud Verdi Requiem, conducted by Robert Spano.  

Italienischer Komponist, tschechisches Orchester und deutscher Chor. Verdis Messa da Requiem in der Münchner Philharmonie ist an diesem Abend ein europäisches Projekt. 

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in a fine account of Verdi's Requiem at the Bridgewater Hall

A seamless combination of State Opera of South Australia and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra have created a Verdi Requiem the equal of which it would be hard to find.

We find Donald Runnicles and his BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on fine form for a dramatic Verdi Requiem, packed with magical sound pictures and lashings of all-important terror. 

An all-Dutch Verdi Requiem with soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek makes a heartfelt case for music as an antidote to war.

A thrilling evening at Poole’s Lighthouse with the BSO and Chorus plus a quartet of superb soloists, conducted by Kirill Karabits in an unforgettable performance of Verdi’s Requiem. 

Soprano Amber Wagner debuts with a flair that reminds us that Verdi's Requiem has dramatic roots.

Dans le Requiem de Verdi, Violeta Urmana provoque une émotion durable sur les auditeurs parmi un plateau de solistes déséquilibré.

New York Philharmonic under its music director Alan Gilbert delivered an impressive performance of Verdi's famous Requiem, with an excellent ensemble of soloists and chorus.

Teatro Regio in Turin paid its first seasonal tribute to Giuseppe Verdi with an engaging execution of the Messa da Reqiuem.

Hans von Bülow taunted that Verdi’s Requiem was just another of his operas “in ecclesiastical garb’”. It’s difficult to disagree when dispatched with as much operatic fervour as Antonio Pappano mustered here. 

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin invokes an unattainable glimpse of heaven in a uniquely crafted Verdi Requiem. 

Riccardo Muti conducts Verdi's Requiem in Madrid and forever changes the lives of the audience that witnessed in astonishment.

The Latin Requiem traverses a series of emotional responses to death, ranging from astonishment and dread to humility and gratitude. Verdi’s Messa da requiem contains all of these ingredients but in different proportions to many other well-known settings. Written by an agnostic, it is more earthly than spiritual in outlook, and fear and trembling predominate.

The greatest bass drum part ever written, the thundering Wrath of God, shook War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco Friday night in a thrilling performance of Verdi’s Requiem. Embracing the vivid extremes of Verdi’s great work, conductor Nicola Luisotti marshaled the wonderfully unruly forces of the largest ensemble ever assembled on the venue’s stage.

We celebrate this year the bicentennials of two of the most influential composers of the 19th century. Yet celebrations in Amsterdam have been rather one-sided so far.

Apart from the precious Quattro pezzi sacri, Verdi wrote very little sacred music until this Requiem, probably due to his agnosticism. When Alessandro Manzoni, one of the most important and admired Italian literary figures, died on the 22nd of May 1873, Verdi felt that something in the Italian cultural world had come to an end.

“The most beautiful sound an audience can make,” Dudamel told the expectant masses, “is silence.” They chuckled knowingly. Dudamel’s request was borne out of the obvious production being made of Tuesday night’s performance. The giant boom and manned onstage cameras indicated that the performance was indeed being filmed.

The Verbier Festival Orchestra is the centrepiece of the festival from which it takes its name. Hundreds of young players hoping to start a professional orchestral career audition each year for the chance to work with big-name conductors, the likes of which this year include Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Gábor Takács-Nagy, and, for this concert, Gianandrea Noseda.

No surprise to find a Verdi programme at the Proms in his bicentenary year, but what was unusual was the focus on sacred music, given his antipathy towards the church as demonstrated in his more prolific output, his operas.

On Thursday, a polar storm swept up New Zealand doing major damage to Wellington and, in the process, trapped the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra there as they prepared to fly to Auckland.