Brahms, Gluck compositions to stage at Opera House

TIRANA, April 17 – Brahms’ German Requiem and Gluck’s Orfeo E Euridice will be the new concerts the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet has scheduled for April 2014. The Ein Deutsches Requiem symphonic concert conducted by Italy’s Matteo Pagliari will show on April 18 and 19 featuring Albanian sopranos Ulpiana Aliaj and Ermira Dauti as well as baritone Armando Likaj.
A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms is a large-scale work for chorus, orchestra, and a soprano and a baritone soloist, composed between 1865 and 1868. It comprises seven movements, which together last 65 to 80 minutes, making this work Brahms’s longest composition. A German Requiem is sacred but non-liturgical, and unlike a long tradition of the Latin Requiem, A German Requiem, as its title states, is a Requiem in the German language.
The next show at the Opera House will be Orfeo ed Euridice, an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing.
The opera featuring Albanian soprano Dorela Cela will feature at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet on April 23, 25, 27, and 29.