FULL WAR REQUIEM (Britten) Weimar 2025 Uma Singh, Felix Stöppler, Joel Andreasson

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: WAR REQUIEM  
• Composer: Britten Benjamin  
• Libretto: Wilfred Owen  
• Venue & Opera Company: Weimarhalle, Weimar, Germany  
• Recorded: May 8, 2025
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Uma Singh, Felix Stöppler, Joel Andreasson
• Conductor: Ekhart Wycik, Jürgen Puschbeck  
• Orchestra: Orchestra of the FRANZ LISZT University of Music Weimar  
• Chorus: University choir of the FRANZ LISZT University of Music Weimar, Chamber choir of the FRANZ LISZT University of Music Weimar, Philharmonic Choir Weimar Collegium Canticum Weimar, Choir of the Music High School Schloss Belvedere  
• Chorus Master: Marian Grosew  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War

  00:00:00 – Start
  00:00:56 – I. Requiem Aeternam
  00:10:27 – II. Dies Irae
  00:36:20 – III. Offertorium
  00:46:24 – IV. Sanctus
  00:56:54 – V. Agnus Dei
  01:00:36 – VI. Libera Me
  01:22:14 – moment of silence
  01:23:51 – applause

  The Second World War in Europe ended on 8 May 1945. Germany celebrates 8 May primarily as a day of remembrance for the victims of Nazi crimes, but of course also as the day of its own liberation from Nazi tyranny by the Allies. With this in mind, the ‘War Requiem’ by English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was performed in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral in central England on 30 May 1962 and has since become one of the most important choral works of the 20th century. The cathedral, which was destroyed by the German Luftwaffe on 14 November 1940, had become a symbol of the militarily senseless destruction of cultural buildings. It was therefore no coincidence that art such as the ‘War Requiem’ became a symbol of remembrance and reconciliation.

  Benjamin Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ is not only a personal reflection by the composer on war and violence, but also a symbolic act of reconciliation. The premiere in 1962 with soloists from Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union emphasised this message. In our performance in Weimar, too, a variety of nationalities from all over the world are gathered on stage to turn this modern mixture of a Latin mass for the dead and poems by the British soldier and poet Wilfred Owen into a pacifist manifesto.

  To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation from National Socialism and the end of the Second World War in Europe on 8 May, the University of Music FRANZ LISZT is staging the War Requiem in cooperation with the City of Weimar.

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