The UNL Symphony Orchestra and Choruses will perform Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem on Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Tickets ($20 adults and $10 student/senior) are available through the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231.
Soloists include alumni Richard Drews, tenor; Charles Austin, bass; Adrienne Dickson, alto; and graduate student Talea Schroeder Bloch, soprano.
Verdi (1813-1901) was Italy's greatest operatic composer, and his monumental setting of the Latin Requiem Mass has often been hailed as "Verdi's greatest opera." It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist admired by Verdi.
The tenderness of human grief, the awesomeness of divine mercy and judgment, and the terrifying spectacle of the end of the world are the focus of Verdi's cosmic panorama and the subject of this core work of the choral-orchestral repertoire.
In honor of the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth, the combined UNL Choirs, joined with the University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Director of Orchestras Tyler White, unite in the Lied Center for an unforgettable musical and dramatic experience, not performed at UNL for 45 years.