After attending a performance of Verdi’s Requiem in Vienna in 1875, Cosima Wagner confided this malicious comment to her diary: “In the evening, Verdi’s Requiem, about which it is decidedly best not to say anything”. And as the paths of their lives crossed again and again – in Paris, Venice, Vienna and elsewhere – we may suspect that the great music dramatists kept out of one another’s way.
Taking together everything the composers, who have been stylized as “antipodes” and declared representatives of two kinds of music, actually proclaimed about one another, we must assume they would have had little to say had they met. We would so much like to know what the two would have had to say to one another. This is so surprising that we simply cannot get it into our heads. The English-language text of the Requiem will also be projected onto the façade of the opera house during the performance.They really probably never did meet: Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, the main figures of German and Italian oepra of the nineteenth century, never exchanged a word between them. As part of a citywide remembrance, the Met will be participating in the 9/11 Tribute in Light, bathing its façade in sky-blue light. Live audio from the performance will also be broadcast directly outside the Met in Lincoln Center Plaza.
The performance will be transmitted live as part of Great Performances on PBS, with ballet star Misty Copeland hosting the program from nearby the site of the 9/11 Museum. The concert marks the first performance inside the Metropolitan Opera House since the March 2020 closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Īudiences in New York City and beyond will also be able to see and hear live transmissions of Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the Met Orchestra and Chorus as well as a quartet of star soloists, soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča, tenor Matthew Polenzani, and bass-baritone Eric Owens.
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