The Macao Orchestra
Saturday, March 26, 2005 20:00
St. Dominic's Church
26/3 (Saturday)
St. Dominic’s Church
8pm
Programme:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to the Opera Die Zauberflöte, K. 620
Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626
Conductor: Michael Lloyd
Soprano: Chen Xiao Qun
Alto: Yang Jie
Tenor: Song Bo
Bass: Zhang Jian Lu
The Hong Kong Oratorio Society
Mozart’s Requiem was commissioned in the
summer of 1791, but was left incomplete at the time of the composer’s death in
December of the same year. Mozart’s student, Franz Süssmayer, finished the work
based on the sketches left by Mozart. In the two centuries since its completion,
Mozart’s Requiem has become one of the most recorded and performed choral
works in the world. This Easter, the Macao Orchestra, under the baton of
renowned conductor Michael Lloyd, will bring to Macao this solemn and uplifting
masterpiece.