The Verdi Requiem: Robert Moody conducts the Arizona Musicfest Festival Orchestra, Soloists and Chorus

The Verdi Requiem: Robert Moody conducts the Arizona Musicfest Festival Orchestra, Soloists and Chorus

Sunday, Feb. 26 at 3 p.m.

“The Verdi Requiem” is a mind-altering experience! Long, arching melodic passages of exceptional beauty are punctuated with thunderbolts of the composer’s apocalyptic vision. Soloists Barbara Quintiliani, soprano; Beth Clayton, mezzo-soprano; Gaston Rivero, tenor; Wayne Tigges, bass-baritone; and a magnificent 200-voice chorus (the Arizona Musicfest Chorus plus the UCLA Chorale) join the all-star Festival Orchestra in Verdi’s dramatic masterwork in all its operatic glory. Definitely not an ecclesiastic requiem! This work of epic proportions was created as a heroic monument and continues to be performed as originally intended, in tribute to beloved cultural icons.

Venue: Pinnacle Presbyterian Church,

25150 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale