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Sydney Philharmonia Choirs: Britten’s War Requiem
Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Combining the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead with the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem premiered in 1962 at the reconsecrated Coventry Cathedral, destroyed during World War II. Britten wanted the soloists to represent Britain, Germany and Russia, but Soviet authorities prevented soprano Galina Vishnevskaya from attending.…