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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kelly Burke

Adelaide festival to stage Verdi’s Requiem with a cast of hundreds – and a star choreographer

Verdi’s Requiem is choreographed by Christian Spuck in Messa da Requiem
‘One of the most flamboyant funeral masses ever written’: Verdi’s Requiem is choreographed by Christian Spuck in Messa da Requiem. Photograph: Carlos Quezada

For Adelaide festival’s 2023 opera centrepiece a cast of almost 200 singers, dancers and musicians will take the stage under the direction of one of the world’s most celebrated choreographers.

Dance will be foregrounded in Messa da Requiem: the celebrated production of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece Requiem by the German choreographer Christian Spuck, which debuted in Zurich in 2016.

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