##This is a profoundly human text in religious & musical culture. In it, the fear of death and its uncertainties conceal, not always with equal fortune, a profound love of life whose end gives meaning to all the intimate reflections set out in the texts in memory of the deceased.

A poem of universal essence and universalising capacity, the precious two-sided coin that favours a vital, hopeful and luminous reading of a dramatic text which, from literature that presents humanity at its most intimate and serious … to its most multitudinous expression and to the most exultant celebration of life itself, something that we fear so much to lose.

Les Arts opens the season with Mozart’s Requiem, a title planned for the opening of the previous season which could not be performed due to COVID-19 restrictions. It is a moving performance based on Mozart’s famous posthumous work, in co-production with several European theatres and festivals. For the first time, the unfinished Requiem by the Salzburg composer is performed – with a staging of extraordinary beauty, the result of the creative ingenuity of stage director Romeo Castellucci, in which choir, soloists and dancers take part. A theatricalised version of the Mass for the Dead, where death is seen as a rebirth to a life full of hope, and which was a resounding success with audiences and critics at the world premiere of the production at the 2019 Aix-en-Provence Festival. James Gaffigan, a connoisseur and interpreter of Mozart’s music, especially the Requiem, which he has already approached with notable success as conductor of the Orchestre National de France, conducts the theatre’s resident choir and orchestra in his first appearance as music director of Les Arts. He is accompanied by the outstanding voices of Elena Tsallagova, Sara Mingardo, Sebastian Kohlhepp and Nahuel Di Pierro.

September 2021
30 Thursday 20:00h

October 2021
02 Saturday 19:00h

10 Sunday 18:00h