Description
Verdi - Requiem / Soloists: Price, Leontyne, sopraano - Pavarotti, Luciano, tenor - Cossotto, Fiorenza, mezzo-soprano - Ghiaurov, Nicolai, bass / Teatro alla Scala / Conductor: Herbert von Karajan / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 83 Minutes
UPC: 044007340554
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.56 x 5.39 x 0.59 inches; 4.44 Ounces
- Director : Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Classical, Dolby, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 25 minutes
- Release date : September 13, 2005
- Actors : Herbert von Karajan, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Nikolai Ghiaurov
- Dubbed: : English, French, Latin, German
- Subtitles: : English
- Language : Latin (PCM Stereo), Latin (DTS 5.1), Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)
- Studio : Philips
- Number of discs : 1
This all-star production of Verdi's Messa da Requiem contains performances by Luciano Pavarotti and Leontyne Price under the direction of Henri-Georges Clouzet. Conducting the orchestra is the legendary Herbert von Karajan.
The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi admired. The first performance, at the San Marco church in Milan on 22 May 1874, marked the first anniversary of Manzoni's death. The work was at one time referred to as the Manzoni Requiem. Considered too operatic to be performed in a liturgical setting, it is usually given in concert form of around 90 minutes in length. Musicologist David Rosen calls it "probably the most frequently performed major choral work composed since the compilation of Mozart's Requiem".
