[Met Concert/Gala] CID:357468



Verdi Requiem Mass
The Met Remembers 9/11
Sat, September 11, 2021




Verdi Requiem Mass (54)


The Met Remembers 9/11


Ailyn Pérez, Soprano
Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-Soprano
Matthew Polenzani, Tenor
Eric Owens, Bass-Baritone

The MET Orchestra
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Chorus Director.........Donald Palumbo

Conductor...............Yannick Nézet-Séguin


J. Knighten Smit, Stage Director
John Keenan and Jonathan C. Kelly, Musical Preparation
Joseph Lawson, Stage Band Conductor
Michael Panayos, Met Titles
John Froelich, Lighting Design
S. Katy Tucker, Projection Design

Costumes for the female choristers designed by Isaac Mizrahi

This concert is presented in association with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
The Verdi Requiem concert and broadcast are made possible by a generous gift from C. Graham Berwind, III.
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus costumes were underwritten by a generous gift from Douglas Dockery Thomas.
Audiences in New York City and beyond will also be able to see and hear live transmissions of Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11. The performance will be transmitted live as part of Great Performances on PBS, with ballet star Misty Copeland hosting the program from nearby the site of the 9/11 Museum.
Live audio from the performance will also be broadcast directly outside the Met in Lincoln Center Plaza.
As part of a citywide remembrance, the Met will be participating in the 9/11 Tribute in Light, bathing its façade in sky-blue light. The English-language text of the Requiem will also be projected onto the façade of the opera house during the performance.






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