Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín

Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, a profoundly moving multimedia concert-drama, combines the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimonials and narration, to tell the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) who performed the celebrated Verdi Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation. With only a smuggled score, they performed the famous oratorio sixteen times, including one performance before senior SS officials from Berlin and an International Red Cross delegation. Conductor Rafael Schächter told the choir, “We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.”

Murry Sidlin, creator & conductor
Adrien Gamache & Tadd Morgan, actors
Kimberly Giordano, soprano
Sarah Mattox, mezzo-soprano
Eric Neuville, tenor
Clayton Brainerd, bass-baritone

Tickets: $15 general, $10 students/seniors

About Defiant Requiem Foundation

https://www.defiantrequiem.org/

About UW Chorale

http://music.washington.edu/ensembles/university-chorale

About Seattle Jewish Chorale

http://www.seattlejewishchorale.org/

About Symphony Tacoma Voices

http://symphonytacoma.org/about/voices

About UW Chamber Singers

http://music.washington.edu/ensembles/chamber-singers

About UW Symphony Orchestra

http://music.washington.edu/ensembles/uw-symphony-orchestra