Riccardo Muti’s mercurial approach to his great compatriot’s Requiem was exciting at first, but it proved increasingly ...

Forget, for a moment, the legend and the lustre. If you knew nothing about Riccardo Muti’s half-century of history with Verdi’s Messa da Requiem for the writer-patriot Alessandro Manzoni – he first ...

On the evidence of the 83-year-old maestro’s performance with the same orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall last night, the answer would have to be a resonant affirmative. The Philharmonia Chorus ...

1 Movement 1 is a classical piece of music composed by ... 1874 and is a section from a much larger piece of religious music called Verdi’s Requiem. Dies Irae is Latin for Day of Wrath and ...

Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and passionate songs took inspiration from art and literature. Famous Romantic composers include Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mahler, and Verdi – ...

In 1848, for a French-language production of Nabucco at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Giuseppe Verdi was asked to compose ballet music—a requirement of French grand opéra.