Culture: Vivid setting for universal themes of loss.(Features)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: April 11, 2003 | Copyright information

There was a time not so long ago when some diehards found it fashionable to sneer at the great operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi for bringing music of the theatre into the sacred precincts of the church.

The offending work in question was his setting of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead, the Requiem he wrote in memory of the great 19th-century Italian author Alessandro Manzoni in 1874, a work full of passion, fervour, anguish and, above all, a touchingly human awe in the face of death - all expressed in the most vivid musical terms.

Its orchestration is colourful, even ...

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