PLYMOUTH: Minster Church of St Andrew

Saturday 23rd March, 2024

6:30pm

Event information

Our second concert of the year is one infused with opera, a genre in which both Puccini and Rossini were masters of their craft.
Messa di Gloria is seen as Puccini’s farewell to sacred music before embarking on a career composing work for the theatre, notably opera, where he brought to the delight of the world, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, and Turandot.
The Gloria, from which the piece derives its name, is one where all of Puccini’s creativity is deployed: memorable tunes, rousing choruses, a haunting tenor aria, key changes, sudden switches of mood, finishing with a fugue.
Rossini’s Stabat Mater score has been judged to be amongst his most inspired works with magnificent and demanding arias for the soloists and tremendous choruses for the choir. The piece continues to wow audiences just as the first performances in Paris and Bologna did where the standing ovation by 500 people extended from the theatre to outside Rossini’s home!

Royal Parade
Plymouth
PL1 2AD

www.standrewschurch.org.uk/

01752 661414