Montserrat Caballé, Peter Dvorsky, Claudio Abbado, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Cecilia Gasdia, Samuel Ramey & Chris Merritt
Abbado rehearses Verdi's Missa da Requiem
Video Director: Norbert Beilharz - Artist: Montserrat Caballé, Peter Dvorsky, Claudio Abbado, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Cecilia Gasdia, Samuel Ramey & Chris Merritt - Soloist: Montserrat Caballé, Peter Dvorsky, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Cecilia Gasdia, Samuel Ramey & Chris Merritt - Conductor: Claudio Abbado - Composer: G. Verdi - Orchestra: Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala
Abbado rehearses Verdi's Missa da Requiem
In Norbert Beilharz' film Lux Aeterna: Abbado alla Scala at Work on Verdi's Messa da Requiem, we witness conductor Claudio Abbado's preparations for the performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s 1874 Requiem in Milan at Chiesa di San Marco in 1985. Beilharz's film offers a fascinating insight into Abbado's work method and provides the opportunity to compare two renditions by two sopranos and two tenors. Verdi’s Requiem is performed by the choir and orchestra of La Scala with soloists Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Cecilia Gasdia (soprano), Lucia Valentini-Terrani (mezzo soprano), Peter Dvorsky (tenor), Chris Merritt (tenor), and Samuel Ramey (bass-baritone).