Requiem

Production Of The 2019 Festival D’aix-en-provence

A Coproduction With Adelaide Festival, Theater Basel, Wiener Festwochen, Palau De Les Arts Reina Sofía, La Monnaie / De Munt

As her existence draws to a close, a woman plunges into the night of her final journey and travels back through the different stages of her life. Like the shadow she casts, the whole of creation now unfolds from the very beginning, through the inexorable litany of all things that are no more. But then a chain of fraternal and festive dancers casts its strength into the battle, bursting with all the joyful energy of the living. Few works have provoked as much commentary as this final Requiem. From his long association with death, Mozart forged a testament of universal significance, giving voice to human anxiety and the terror of the cosmos, but also charting a path towards pacification and light. For Romeo Castellucci, finitude gives to all things their value and to works of art their beauty. With Raphaël Pichon leading a new generation of singers and the musical forces of Pygmalion, whose extraordinary performance offers a distillation of our entire humanity, this famous work is transformed into a unique listening experience.

Program and cast

Requiem In D Minor, K.626
Anonymous Text In Latin From The Catholic Mass For The Dead
First Performed On 2 January 1793 At The Jahn-saal In Vienna
Version Completed By Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1792)
Arrangement By Raphaël Pichon Incorporating Other Works By Mozart And Gregorian Sequences

Conductor: Raphaël Pichon*

Stage direction, Set, Costume and Lighting design: Romeo Castellucci

Dramaturgy: Piersandra di Matteo

Choreography: Evelin Facchini

Staging collaborator: Silvia Costa

Soprano: Mélissa Petit

Alto: Beth Taylor

Ténor: Duke Kim*

Basse: Alex Rosen*

Choir and Orchestra: Pygmalion

*Former artists of the Académie