Verdi's Requiem

March 23, 2012  |  7:00 PM  |  Trinity Episcopal Church, Vero Beach
March 24, 2012  |  7:00 PM  |  Holy Trinity Episcopal Auditorium, Melbourne

Richard Wagner  |  Overture to Tannhäuser
Giuseppe Verdi  |  Requiem

The Space Coast Symphony closes its Masterwork Series with one of Central Florida’s largest productions to date.  The concert opens with Richard Wagner’s powerful Overture to Tannhäuser. The opera itself, first presented in 1845, quickly became popular, but the overture almost immediately took on a life of its own as a concert piece played widely throughout concert halls.  The concert closes with Verdi’s grand Requiem Mass—an epic work that everyone should hear live at least once in their lifetime.  Drums thunder, trumpets blast, and a mighty chorus screams out in terror: Verdi’s Requiem isn’t exactly what you expect from religious music.   But it’s exactly what you’d expect from the grand master of Italian opera.  This masterpiece is full-blooded, scarily passionate, and achingly beautiful.  Prepare to be astonished as the SCSO and Space Coast Chorus turn the volume up to "deafening" and closes the Masterworks Series in a blaze of passion.

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