Opera in Roma - W. A. Mozart - Requiem

The Requiem Mass K 626 in D minor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's last unfinished work, represents a labyrinth of contradictions and mysteries that over time has divided historians and musicologists, fueling conjectures and igniting passions. Mozart completed only the Introit: Requiem aeternam, and wrote the main parts of the opera, indicating the melodic motif of the accompaniment from time to time. Kyrie, Sequentia (with the Lacrimosa stopping after the first eight bars) and the Offertorium arrived at this stage.

After Mozart's death, his wife Constanze delegated the completion of the Requiem to her husband's three pupils, in order to get closer to the original intentions of the work, but only Franz Xaver Süssmayr continued the work, homogeneously rearranging the work of the previous collaborators and completing the totally missing passages of the manuscript. From the very first notes there is a sense of anguish, it is as if the author was afraid of death and judgment and it is as if it were already present.

Mariangela Cafaro, soprano
Olivia Andreini, mezzo soprano
Delfo Paone, tenor
Ferruccio Finetti, bass baritone
Coro Accademia Vocale Romana e Coro La Fenice
Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Roma
Barbara Cattabiani and Claudia Agostini, piano
Sandra Cepero Alvarez, conductor

programa

W. A. MOZART
Requiem in Re minore K 626

Lugar

San Pablo Intramuros (en italiano, San Paolo dentro le mura, en inglés, St Paul's Within the Walls), también conocida como la Iglesia americana en Roma, es una iglesia de la Convocación de Iglesias Episcopales en Europa en Via Nazionale en Castro Pretorio, Roma. Fue la primera iglesia protestante construida en Roma.​ Diseñada por el arquitecto inglés George Edmund Street en estilo neogótico, fue construida en piedra y ladrillo polícromo,​ y se terminó en 1880.

La iglesia contiene mosaicos que son las obras de mayor tamaño del artista inglés prerrafaelita Edward Burne-Jones.