Metropolitan Opera soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer leads an incredible quartet of soloists in Opera Orlando’s presentation of DEFIANT REQUIEM
Opera Orlando is thrilled to announce a world-class line up of soloists and performers for the Florida premiere of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín. Metropolitan Opera soprano Wendy Bryn Harmer headlines the quartet of soloists for this performance of Verdi’s Requiem joined by mezzo-soprano Ann McMahon Quintero (last seen as the title role in Opera Orlando’s Lizbeth in 2022), Metropolitan Opera tenor Harold Meers (making his Opera Orlando debut), and bass Zaikuan Song (last seen as Raimondo in Opera Orlando’s Lucia di Lammermoor). Leading these stellar soloists will be conductor and Defiant Requiem Foundation founder, Murry Sidlin, who will also serve as narrator for this concert drama, retelling this unbelievable true story alongside Alina Alcántara as the Lecturer and Alex Mansoori as Rafael Schӓchter, the Czech composer who taught and conducted Verdi’s Requiem in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) during World War II — the inspiration for this work.
DEFIANT REQUIEM: VERDI AT TEREZÍN
Celebrating, expanding, and sharing the world’s greatest art form
conceived and created by Murry Sidlin with music by Guisseppe Verdi sung in various languages with no supertitles
age advisory: PG
Saturday | September 14, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
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