On the working day when the title of Luciano Pavarotti will surface amongst the stars of the famous “Stroll of Fame” in Hollywood “, Rai Cultura celebrates the terrific tenor by proposing the restored copy of his historic interpretation of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass directed by Claudio Abbado, broadcast on Thursday 24 August at 9.15 pm on Rai 5.
Recorded in 1970 in the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, in Rome, the Verdi Requiem sees amid the protagonists, in addition to Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Marilyn Horne, Nicolai Ghiaurov, the Rai Symphony Orchestra of Rome, and the Milan and Rome Choirs of Rai. The restoration of the film was carried out by the Cineteca di Bologna.
The Requiem is released by a smaller animation, lasting two minutes, written and directed by Gianluigi Toccafondo for the Celebrations in Los Angeles in memory of Luciano Pavarotti and on the situation of the laying of the Star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame. The online video is created by Albedo Manufacturing.
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