Requiem de Mozart / Mozart’s Requiem || Temple of San Francisco

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  • Requiem de Mozart / Mozart’s Requiem

    Saturday, November 2nd, 2019
    2:00 pm

    Tercera Orden
    TICKETS HERE

    and
    5:00 pm
    Temple of San Francisco (Chapel)
    Free


    In Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, both the stage play and the movie, a mysterious masked man visits the Vienna home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and offers him money to compose a requiem, or mass for the dead, for chorus and orchestra. The masked man in the fictional story is Mozart’s jealous rival composer, Antonio Salieri, who plans to murder Mozart and pass off the requiem as his own work.

    The true story is less colorful, but still decidedly strange. In 1791, Count Franz von Walsegg, an amateur musician, commissioned Mozart to compose a requiem for a private performance, in honor of Walsegg’s 20-year-old wife Anna, who had died that year. There is evidence that Walsegg did indeed plan to claim the piece as his own composition. His alleged plot was foiled when Mozart himself died in December 1791, at age 35, leaving the requiem unfinished. Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Sussmayr helped complete the mass, working from Mozart’s sketches.

    Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K. 626, went on to become one of the monuments of the classical repertoire, revered from the day it first was performed. Portions of it were played at the funerals or memorial services of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Berlioz.

    On November 2, 2018, Day of the Dead, a performance of the Requiem at the Parroquia drew more spectators than the parish could hold, and the overflow crowd may have set all-time attendance records for a classical concert in San Miguel. The performance featured a full orchestra, a large chorus, and soloists, and was conducted by Mauro Ledesma, musical director for the Coro de la Ópera de San Miguel de Allende.

    This year, on Saturday, November 2, 2019, there will be two performances of the Mozart Requiem, one a paid-donation, reserved-seat event at 2pm, and the other a free open-seating event at 5pm. Both concerts will feature a 24-piece orchestra with 60 singers and soloists, conducted by Ledesma.

    The chorus is Chorale San Miguel (artistic director: Malcolm Halliday), which was founded to present concerts in large format, with full vocal and orchestral forces, featuring masterpieces from four centuries.

    The 2pm concert will take place at the Capilla de Tercera Orden (Third Order Chapel), a large sanctuary with wonderful acoustics, located adjacent to the San Francisco Church (corner of San Francisco and Juarez). The 5pm concert will be held at the San Francisco Church.

    The requested donations for the 2pm concert are 500 pesos for the ground floor, and 300 pesos for the choir loft.

    Tickets for those reserved seats can be obtained online by clicking either of the “Buy Tickets Online” buttons in this email newsletter; or at boletocity.com; or in person at Boleto City, Mercado Sano, Monday through Friday, 11am to 5pm.

    Visitors to the Boleto City website will observe that reserved seats for Chorale San Miguel’s next two concerts, performances of Handel’s Messiah on December 21 and 22, are also available.

    For more information, please visit choralesanmiguel.com.


    The three Choruses, Chorale San Miguel, Coro de la Opera de San Miguel, y Coro Juvenil de Celaya will perform Mozart’s Requiem on Nov 2nd, 2019, The Day of the Dead. Continuing a tradition that we started last year, we invite everyone to come and experience this glorious music.

    A 5:00 pm concert will be performed in the Templo de San Francisco. OPEN AND FREE TO THE PUBLIC. Please arrive early; limited to seating on hand.

    There will be an earlier concert at 2:00 PM in the Tercera Orden (On the park of San Francisco Church.)
    For this concert there will be only reserved seating. For information, ticket purchase or to make a donation, go to Boletocity, www.boletocity.com


     

    Temple of San Francisco located Juarez/Principal San Francisco not far from the Jardin. The church was built in 1778, the church has few design from Churriqueresque facade to neoclassical bell tower. Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras built the bell tower in 1799.

     

     

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