Messa da Requiem

Zubin Mehta has never ceased, through his career and greatly inspiring musical journey, to seek to reveal the greatness and depth of musical language while considering music as a message of peace and vector for essential human encounters.

“As with us all, he had lost his faith, but more than others, it was the regret of it that remained”. These few words from Arrigo Boito about Giuseppe Verdi testify to the complex relationships that the Maestro had with spirituality. He who had explored all human emotions and many of the injustices distilled by the world’s religions was also a great composer of sacred music. Indeed, it was the Quattro Pezzi Sacri that brought a close to the immense output of the man who reinvented Italian opera.

After the triumphant success of Aida, Verdi wished to crown and close his career with a Messa da Requiem in homage to the great…