Department of Music Presents Defiant Requiem

The Department of Music will present the powerful multimedia concert drama, Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, in a single performance on Sunday, December 3, at 2:00 pm, in the Anne R. Belk Theater in Robinson Hall. A reception will follow.

Praised by the New York Times as “Poignant…a monument to the courage of one man to foster hope among prisoners with little other solace,” Defiant Requiem commemorates the remarkable story of Jewish prisoners who performed the Verdi Requiem in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp during the Holocaust. The program combines Verdi’s magnificent music with dramatic narration, video testimony from Terezín survivors, and segments of the Nazi propaganda film made at the camp in 1944.

The performance features the University Chorale and the Sine Nomine choral ensemble, guest pianist Arlene Shrut, and soloists Christina Pier (soprano), Victoria Livengood (alto), Brian Cheney (tenor), and Carl DuPont (bass-baritone), assistant professor of voice at UNC Charlotte. It will be conducted by Maestro Murry Sidlin, president of The Defiant Requiem Foundation and creator of the Defiant Requiem.

Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students, seniors, active military and veterans, and UNC Charlotte faculty, staff, and alumni.

Defiant Requiem is presented in partnership with The Defiant Requiem Foundation and the Steinway Piano Gallery-Charlotte.