The Jacksonville Symphony will present Verdi’s Requiem in mid-March as part of its Florida Blue Masterworks Series.
This epic work showcases Verdi’s ability to interweave beauty, drama, loss, redemption and trepidation into a masterpiece. The requiem will be sung in Italian, but there will be English subtitles.
The music director for the evening will be Courtney Lewis. Amber Wagner will be the soprano; Katharine Goeldner will sing mezzo-soprano; Norman Reinhardt will be the tenor; and Nathan Stark will be the bass baritone. The Jacksonville Symphony Chorus will be joined by the University of North Florida Chorale.
Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi wrote the requiem for his friend Monzoni, a popular poet of his time. The work is divided into seven movements ending with ‘Livera Me’, which he originally wrote for the death of his friend Gioachino Rossini. The longest segment, about half of the duration, is the 37-minute ‘Dies Irae’ which resembles an opera with its scoring variations, a range of emotions, and text segments.
The piece was composed for three flutes, four bassoons, two oboes, four trumpets, two clarinets, four horns, a bass tuba, three trombones, a bass drum, and timpani. He included a quartet of vocal soloists, a chorus, and strings. Many businesses give tickets to performances such as this as Corporate Gifts.
Verdi’s Requiem will be performed at the Time-Union Center for the Performing Arts, Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall 300 Water Street, Suite 200, next Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, with the curtain going up at 8:00 pm both nights.
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