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 University Chorale

The Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton Chorale is an audi­tioned advanced under­grad­u­ate ensem­ble of music and non-music majors from the Seat­tle cam­pus. UW Chorale appears annually as a guest ensem­ble with the Seat­tle Sym­phony, and has sung in joint con­certs with Revalia Male Cham­ber Choir in Esto­nia, and for the Princess of Swe­den. UW Chorale appeared at the Lat­vian Song Fes­ti­val in Riga, dur­ing the sum­mer of 2013 and the Estonian Festival of Song and Dance in 2019, as one of the only Amer­i­can choirs.

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