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Alessandro Manzoni, in whose honour Verdi wrote the Requiem
Messa da requiem
- Mass in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
- 1st premiere at the church of San Marco, Milan 22 May 1874
- 2nd performance at Teatro alla Scala, Milan 25 May 1874
The 1st performance of the Requiem, at the church of San Marco, Milan, on 22 May 1874, with Verdi conducting. The soloists depicted are (left to right) Ormondo Maini, Giuseppe Capponi, Maria Waldmann, and Teresa Stolz.
The 2nd performance of the Requiem, at La Scala on 25 May 1874, with Verdi conducting. The soloists depicted are (left to right) Ormondo Maini, Giuseppe Capponi, Maria Waldmann, and Teresa Stolz.
*Soprano
- *Teresa Stolz sang in the premiere
- Aino Ackté
- Berta Morena
- Fernanda Chiesa
- Cecilia Gagliardi
- Viorica Tango Vasilescu
- Maria Caniglia
- Zinka Milanov
- Lina Bruna Rasa
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- Renata Tebaldi
- Dame Joan Alston Sutherland
- Leontyne Price
- Montserrat Caballé
- Renata Scotto
- Mirella Freni
- Ángeles Gulín
- Jessye Norman
- Aprile Millo
- Angela Gheorghiu
- Mezzo-soprano
- Maria Waldmann sang in the premiere
- Medea Maria Figner
- Ebe Stignani
- Fedora Barbieri
- Shirley Verrett
- Fiorenza Cossotto
- Jessye Norman
- Tenor
- Giuseppe Capponi sang in the premiere
- Francesco Innocenzo Tamagno
- Francesco Marconi
- Ivan Vasiliyevitch Ershov
- Alfred Piccaver
- Beniamino Samuele Benedetto Gigli
- Jussi Björling
- Richard Tucker
- Giuseppe di Stefano
- Carlo Bergonzi
- Nicolai Gedda
- Fritz Wunderlich
- Carlo Cossutta
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Plácido Domingo
- José Carreras
- Roberto Alagna
- Bass
- Conductor
- Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi himself conducted in the premiere
- Emanuele Muzio
- Franco Faccio
- Paul Taffanel
- Arturo Toscanini
- Egisto Emilio Tango
- Tullio Serafin
- Fritz Reiner
- Victor de Sabata
- George Endre Szell
- Eugene Ormandy
- Sir John Barbirolli, CH
- Rafael Schächter (1905 - 1945), performances in Theresienstadt
- Fernando Previtali
- Herbert von Karajan
- Sergiu Celibidache
- Sir Georg Solti
- Carlo Maria Giulini
- Robert Lawson Shaw
- Leonard Bernstein
- Guido Cantelli
- Lorin Varencove Maazel
- Claudio Abbado
- Zubin Mehta
- Riccardo Muti
- James Lawrence Levine
- Riccardo Chailly, OMRI
Quattro pezzi sacri
- Quattro pezzi sacri, for contralto, chorus and orchestra
- The four parts were composed separately and put together later:
- Ave Maria (1889) for mixed solo voices. Verdi did not like Ave Maria to be included, even though he liked the piece itself. Without Ave Maria, the whole was called Tre pezzi sacri.
- Stabat Mater (1897) for 4-voice choir and orchestra, text by Jacopone da Todi
- Laudi alla Vergine Maria (1888) for choir of sopranos and contraltos, a cappella, text from the XXXIII Canto del Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
- Te Deum (1896) for double chorus and orchestra. Verdi liked Te Deum best of the four. He thought of it as an intimate confession, and even wanted the score to be buried with him.
- Premiere 7 April 1898, Grande Opéra, Paris (in its present building of Palais Garnier)
- First performance in Italy 26 May 1898 in Turin, again without the Ave Maria.
- Contralto/mezzo-soprano
- Aino Ackté sang in the World Premiere at the Opera de Paris 7 April 1898
- Leontyne Price (Ave Maria only)
- Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
- Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano
- Conductor
- Leandro Campanari conducted the first performance of Stabat Mater, Verdi's last composition, in 1897.
- Paul Taffanel conducted in the world premiere 7 Apr 1898
- Arturo Toscanini conducted in the first Italian premiere 26 May 1898
- Richard von Perger conducted in the Austrian premiere 13 Nov 1898, Ave Maria included for the first time.
- Fritz Reiner
- Fernando Previtali
- Sir Georg Solti
- Carlo Maria Giulini
- Robert Lawson Shaw
- Margaret Eleanor Hillis
- Claudio Abbado
- Zubin Mehta
- Riccardo Muti
- Myung-whun Chung
Verdi's death and funeral
Verdi died in Milano on 27 January 1901, at 87 years of age.
Verdi's funeral procession in Milan.