Brahms, Requiem

‘I will comfort you as a mother comforts her child": Johannes Brahms' Requiem in German touches the heart - because it focuses on the grieving bereaved and not on the deceased and their salvation. Brahms himself called his unusual and not at all liturgically bound contribution to the genre ‘funeral music as a beatitude for those who suffer’ and thus created one of his most popular works. The Alte Oper gives amateur singers the opportunity to rehearse this work in the specially formed Enthusiastenchor and perform it together on the stage of the Great Hall - supported by the choir and orchestra of the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst.

Information on participation at www.alteoper.de/mitmachen