With:
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
State Choir Latvija
Aga Mikolaj, soprano
Olesya Petrova, mezzo-soprano
Giorgio Berrugi, tenor
Ricardo Zanellato, bass
Conductor Andris Poga

Giacomo Rossini died in 1868 and Verdi put forward the idea that a number of composers should write a memorial mass together. Unfortunately nothing much came of this, but the idea became the nucleus of a mass penned by Verdi alone. The final impulse that drove this great Italian composer to complete his requiem was the death of the symbol of Italy’s unification movement (Risorgimento), the poet Alessandro Manzoni, in the spring of 1873.

Giuseppe Verdi defined his view of the world as agnostic, as he believed that we cannot know anything about the absence or existence of God. Many people have therefore tried to ascertain from whom exactly Verdi is asking for eternal peace.

The concert in Paris will feature the State Choir Latvija, which has performed Verdi’s Requiem with the best conductors in the world for four decades now. The Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Andris Poga will conduct the concert. He is known to Parisian audiences from his time as the Assistant Conductor of the eminent Orchestre de Paris from 2011 to 2014.

Tickets available on the website of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.