Benjamin Britten War Requiem
The Trinity Boys and Girls Choirs will join forces with the Yale Glee Club, Yale Camerata, and Elm City Girls Choir to sing Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem accompanied by the Yale Symphony Orchestra. The concert will be performed twice:
Wednesday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. – Woolsey Hall, Yale University
Sunday, April 7 at 7 p.m. – St. Bartholomew's Church, New York
Following in the operatic tradition of Verdi’s Requiem, Britten brings his operatic skills to realize the conflicts and futility of war through three separate forces—full orchestra, choir, and soprano in the Latin Requiem Mass; Chamber orchestra, tenor, and baritone in settings of Wilfred Owen’s war poems; and an unseen children’s choir that intones words to Paradise.
