True Concord Voices & Orchestra didn’t waste any time building on the euphoria from its acclaimed performance late last month of Bernstein’s Mass. This weekend, the professional choir joins with 40 ...

Verdi’s Requiem was a late addition to Los Angeles Opera’s fall season, a response to the death of Edgar Baitzel, the company’s chief operating officer and Plácido Domingo’s right-hand man, in March.

Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi by Giovanni Boldini (1886) - National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): Requiem I. Introit (Requiem aeternam) & Kyrie II. Sequence (Dies irae) Tuba ...

How do you pay tribute to an artistic legacy as various and far-reaching as Leonard Bernstein's? You have to take it one chunk at a time. Bernstein's 90th birthday was in August, and for reasons best ...

1. First performed in 1874, Verdi’s setting of the Roman Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) was inspired by the death the previous year of Allesandro Manzoni, the Italian poet and novelist. The piece at ...

Also this morning, we're remembering another teacher: Raphael Schachter, who was a Jewish prisoner in a concentration camp. More than 60 years ago, he taught fellow prisoners a way to defy their ...

Verdi’s Requiem is, some say, his greatest opera: passionate emotions in a deeply powerful sacred drama of life and death itself. Great artists who aspire to touch the stars have their heroes. Verdi ...