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FULL Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín Redlands CA 2024 Courtney Taylor, Olga Perez Flora, James Flora, Paul An
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Messa da Requiem
- Composer: Verdi Giuseppe
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Memorial Chapel, Redlands, California, University of Redlands School of Performing Arts and Conservatory of Music
- Recorded: March 16, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín is a concert-drama that was conceived and created by Foundation President, Maestro Murry Sidlin. It combines the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimony from survivors of the original Terezín chorus and footage from the 1944 Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt. The performance also includes actors who speak the words of imprisoned conductor Rafael Schächter and others. Defiant Requiem is not just a performance of the Verdi Requiem, but a tribute to the inspired leadership of Rafael Schächter who was forced to reconstitute the choir three times as members were transported to Auschwitz. The performances came to symbolize resistance and defiance and demonstrated the prisoners’ courage to confront the worst of mankind with the best of mankind. Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín is powerful, dramatic and inspirational.