In memory of the canonized victims of the Armenian Genocide, on April 23 at 23:59, the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem. NEWS.am was informed about this by the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia.
The concert will be held at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall with the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia.
The soloists will be Anna Aglatova (soprano), Sofia Tumanyan (mezzo-soprano), Tigran Melkonyan (tenor) and Milan Silyanov (bass). The Hover State Chamber Choir (artistic director, conductor: Sona Hovhannisyan) and the Yerevan State Chamber Choir (artistic director, principal conductor: Kristina Voskanyan) will also perform on stage. The concert will be conducted by Eduard Topchyan, artistic director and principal conductor of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia.
One of the greatest works of the genius Mozart, “Requiem” – this most influential funeral mass of all time – a heartfelt hymn to the Lord, the depth, drama and grandeur of which, emotionality and brightness do not leave the listener indifferent. “Requiem” is the last work of Mozart, the swan song of the great composer, which has become one of the greatest monuments of world culture.
“Requiem” is a funeral mass performed to a traditional Latin religious text. It consists of several sections, some of which are included in the liturgy (“Kyrie eleison” – “Lord, have mercy”, “Sanctus” – “Holy”, “Agnus Dei” – “Lamb of God”), and there are obligatory parts that relate only to the funeral mass (“Requiem aeternam” – “Eternal rest”, “Dies irae” and “Tuba mirum” – “Day of wrath” and “Wonderful trumpet”, which depict the last judgment of the Lord and “Lacrimosa” – “Lamentation”).
In his “Requiem” Mozart embodied through music the confusion, peaceful calm, sorrow and suffering of the human soul. The whole work is imbued with humanism, warm love for humanity and sympathy for the suffering.
A complete list of events planned in the theater and concert organizations operating within the system of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism within the framework of the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is attached.