Mozart’s Requiem

Mozart’s Requiem

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10. April 2025 at 19:30

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Welcome to an evening of music by Franz Schubert and Arvo Pärt, as well as one of Mozart's most renowned works.

Schubert’s Stabat Mater is a beautiful and sorrowful tribute to the Virgin Mary. Pärt greatly admired Britten and composed Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten as an elegy mourning the composer’s death in 1976. Pärt’s L’abbé Agathon is composed for soprano and strings and is inspired by Maladrerie Saint-Lazare, one of Europe’s oldest leprosy hospitals.

The evening concludes with Mozart’s powerful Requiem, one of his most famous works. Mozart composed the Requiem towards the end of his young life and died before finishing it. His assistant, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, completed this immortal piece.

Main series

Thursday 10. April 2025 at 19:30

- Sold out

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Program

Franz Schubert: Stabat Mater, D. 175
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Arvo Pärt: L'abbé Agathon (arr. Kõrvits)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem

Contributors

Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
Maria Listra, soprano
Ema Delac, alto
Eirik, tenor
Trond Gudevold, bass
Stavanger Symphony Choir
Kersti Ala-Murr, choir conductor
Dunja Bontek, concertmaster

Tõnu Kaljuste

Conductor

Tõnu Kaljuste, born in Tallinn (Estonia) in 1953, is the son of Heino Kaljuste, who was a leading Estonian choral conductor and teacher. Tõnu Kaljuste specialised early in choral conducting and studied at both Tallinn and Leningrad Conservatories. In 1981, he embarked on a full-time professional career after his Ellerhein Chamber Choir won first prize in the Béla Bartók International Choral Competition, bringing state funding for the choir, which was renamed the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.
Maria Listra

Soloist

Maria Listra is a vocal artist who combines various forms of music theatre and culture in her creative career, ranging from chamber music to opera, and from early music to contemporary works. She graduated from Chigwell School in London in 2008 and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Drama and Theatre Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2011.

Maria Listra has performed in concert series in major concert halls throughout Estonia, participated in opera and musical projects, sung a diverse repertoire of chamber music, and performed oratorios.

Since 2014, she has been an active guest soloist at the Vanemuine Theatre. Her roles include Roxane (Tamberg’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”), Zerlina (Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”), Linda (Kaumann’s “Department Store”), Franziska Cagliari (J. Strauss’s “Viennese Blood”), Linda (Donizetti’s “Linda di Chamounix”), Prl Silberklang (Mozart’s “The Impresario”), Christine (Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera”), Johanna (Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd”), Cosette (Schönberg’s “Les Misérables”), and Woman (Lill’s “Tulleminek”). She has also performed the role of the First Lady in Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” at the Estonian National Opera and Lydia Koidula in Alo Põldmäe’s chamber opera “Emajõe ööbikud” at the Tartu New Theatre.

She lately performed the role of Sinikka in the premiere of Veljo Tormis and Rasmus Puur’s opera “Lalli or There is a Man in the Middle of the Sea” at the Birgitta Festival Tallinn and Cleopatra in Händel’s opera “Julius Caesar” at the Vanemuine Theatre Tartu. In April 2025 she sings “L’abbé Agathon” with Stavanger Symphony and Tõnu Kaljuste.

For the Arvo Pärt album “Tractus” (ECM Records) she presents the solo part of “L’abbé Agathon” with Tõnu Kaljuste and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra.

In addition to theatre projects, Listra has given masterclasses, lectures, seminars, and individual lessons on various cultural and interpretation topics.
Ema Delac

Soloist

Ema Delač, mezzo-soprano (b. 1998), was born and raised in Croatia. She studied classical singing and earned her bachelor’s degree in music pedagogy at the Music Academy in Pula, Croatia (Muzička akademija u Puli), before pursuing a master’s degree in opera at the Academy of Opera in Oslo (KHiO), where she also completed a one-year opera program.

Delač has performed as a soloist in both Croatia and Norway with various orchestras and conductors, singing works such as W. A. Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, F. Liszt’s Via Crucis, I. pl. Zajc’s I. Messe Solemnis, A. Vivaldi’s Gloria RV 589, G. B. Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Iver Kleive’s Requiem, and G. F. Händel’s Messiah.

Through masterclasses and vocal coaching, Ema has studied with renowned teachers such as Sofija Cingula, Ingrid Haller, Maida Hundeling, Jan Vacik, Dame Emma Kirkby, Nicholas Clapton, Margareta Klobučar, and Olivera Miljaković.
Anders J. Dahlin

Soloist

Anders J. Dahlin began his studies at the Conservatory of Music in Falun, Sweden, and completed his education in the soloist class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music under Professor Kirsten Buhl Møller.

He has received critical acclaim for his interpretations as the Evangelist in Bach’s Passions and as the tenor soloist in Britten’s Serenade.

Dahlin has performed leading roles in several of Rameau’s operas, including Zoroastre, Platée, Pygmalion, and Castor et Pollux. He has also appeared in works by Monteverdi, Charpentier, and Mozart, notably as Tito in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

In 2014, Anders J. Dahlin was awarded the prestigious Jussi Björling Award.
Trond Gudevold

Soloist

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