Daniele Gatti conducts Verdi's Requiem — With Lise Davidsen, Yulia Matochkina, Freddie De Tommaso, and Bryn Terfel

It is perhaps unsurprising that a requiem written by one of the most quintessentially operatic composers would take on an intensely dramatic character not often seen in ecclesiastically-set works—and this monument of the vocal repertoire has indeed been referred to as an "opera in disguise." Replete with striking tonal shifts, it appears almost to outline a narrative trajectory with the recurrent "Dies Irae," bold and terrifying, and with the arc of the soprano who, in the final "Libera me," seems to take on the role of “a beleaguered heroine trying finally to make sense of the world in which she has been cast” (Grove Music).

medici.tv’s broadcasts of the Verbier Festival's 30th anniversary edition are produced with the support of Madame Aline Foriel-Destezet.
Lise Davidsen and Freddie De Tommaso appear courtesy of Decca Classics. Bryn Terfel appears courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.