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Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín
http://www.broadwaycenter.org/component/jevents/eventdetail/421/-/defiant-requiem-verdi-at-terezin?Itemid=212
Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Tacoma Armory Tacoma Armory 715 S. 11th Street Tacoma, WA 98405
Tickets: Premium: $50 General: $35 Student/Senior: $20
Murry Sidlin, creator & conductor Adrien Gamache & Tadd Morgan, actors Kimberly Giordano, soprano Sarah Mattox, mezzo-soprano Eric Neuville, tenor Clayton Brainerd, bass-baritone
University of Washington Symphony Orchestra University of Washington Chamber Singers and University Chorale Symphony Tacoma Voices Members of the Seattle Jewish Chorale Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, a profoundly moving multimedia concert-drama, combines the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimonials and narration, to tell the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) who performed the celebrated Verdi Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation. With only a smuggled score, they performed the famous oratorio sixteen times, including one performance before senior SS officials from Berlin and an International Red Cross delegation. Conductor Rafael Schächter told the choir, “We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.”
This concert is approximately 115 minutes with no intermission.
Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Tacoma Armory Tacoma Armory 715 S. 11th Street Tacoma, WA 98405
Tickets: Premium: $50 General: $35 Student/Senior: $20
Murry Sidlin, creator & conductor Adrien Gamache & Tadd Morgan, actors Kimberly Giordano, soprano Sarah Mattox, mezzo-soprano Eric Neuville, tenor Clayton Brainerd, bass-baritone
University of Washington Symphony Orchestra University of Washington Chamber Singers and University Chorale Symphony Tacoma Voices Members of the Seattle Jewish Chorale Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, a profoundly moving multimedia concert-drama, combines the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimonials and narration, to tell the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) who performed the celebrated Verdi Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation. With only a smuggled score, they performed the famous oratorio sixteen times, including one performance before senior SS officials from Berlin and an International Red Cross delegation. Conductor Rafael Schächter told the choir, “We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.”
This concert is approximately 115 minutes with no intermission.
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