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Proms 2024
23 Jul 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 6: Verdi’s Requiem

Prom 6
Prom 6: Verdi’s Requiem
19:00 Tue 23 Jul 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Verdi’s Requiem was first performed 150 years ago and given its British premiere at the Royal Albert Hall the following year. Ryan Bancroft leads the Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and massed singers in a performance of this vivid choral masterpieces.
Verdi’s Requiem was first performed 150 years ago and given its British premiere at the Royal Albert Hall the following year. Ryan Bancroft leads the Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and massed singers in a performance of this vivid choral masterpieces.

About This Event

Giuseppe Verdi was moved to write his Requiem by the death of friends and colleagues. The result was a high-octane work whose expression of grief, faith and judgement drew such dramatic music from its composer that some thought it profane. First performed 150 years ago, and given its British premiere at the Royal Albert Hall the following year, it is one of music’s most vivid masterpieces. Following his Prom with the Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Orchestra of Wales last night (see Prom 5), Ryan Bancroft returns this time with two choirs, lending suitably large forces for this powerful setting of the Latin Mass for the Dead.

There will be no interval

Broadcast live on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

Broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four and Â鶹ԼÅÄ iPlayer this season

Image: Latonia Moore © Coco Jourdana