Verdi Requiem
Durham University Choral Society
Durham University Orchestral Society
Hannah McKay (soprano)
Graeme Danby (bass)
Tim Burke (conductor)
Two of Durham University’s finest music societies combine for Giuseppe Verdi’s monumental setting of the Requiem Mass, conducted by Durham University Choral Society’s new Principal Conductor Tim Burke and soloists including Durham alumna soprano Hannah McKay.
The evening opens with the Orchestral Society playing the overture to Gioachino Rossini’s opera The Thieving Magpie setting the scene for Verdi’s dramatic and operatic Requiem.
Tickets £22, concessions £19.80, students £14.30