After Covid thwarted two attempts to bring out Christian Spuck’s acclaimed Messa da Requiem, the festival has finally announced it as next year’s centrepiece
Christian Spuck’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece Messa da Requiem, featuring Ballett Zürich.co-directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy’s bids to bring Messa da Requiem to Australia in 2020 and 2021; the festival’s incoming director, Ruth Mackenzie, has reeled it in.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning A dozen of Ballett Zürich’s artists will arrive in Australia early next year in preparation, joining about 170 singers, dancers and musicians for the Verdi masterwork – one of the most flamboyant funeral masses ever written.
Its hellfire and brimstone Dies Irae chorus has weaved its way into popular culture to an extent only eclipsed by Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. The urge by creatives to wrench it from its oratorio straitjacket has led to it being reimagined as the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center (New York Metropolitan
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