Verdi: Requiem – Anna Netrebkóval

The peerless opera diva of our time, Anna Netrebko has enjoyed several triumphs at Müpa Budapest since her first visit in 2016. Although she has collaborated with the conductor Michelangelo Mazza on many occasions for both opera productions and concerts, this performance by the Russian-Austrian soprano, despite her decades-long career, still comes as a sort of debut: her very first time ever singing the soprano part in Verdi’s Requiem! Joining Netrebko as soloists in this funeral mass the immortal opera composer wrote to memorialise his compatriot, the poet Alessandro Manzoni, will be Poland’s Agnieszka Rehlis, who is at home in both the classical and contemporary repertoire and will now be returning to Müpa Budapest after ten years, the star tenor Matthew Polenzani, a familiar veteran of Met broadcasts also marking his return to Budapest, and the Karajan Prize-winning Sándor Köpeczi, who has made his way to international stages from the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera.