Monteverdi Choir, Monteverdi Orchestra

Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique led by Sir John Eliot Gardiner will stage a special one-off performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s legendary Messa da Requiem at London’s Westminster Cathedral.

This unique concert will be in support of Cancer Research UK and dedicated to the memory of Richard Fitzgerald, Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras’ long-standing stage manager who sadly passed away from lung cancer in August 2016.

This special concert marks 20 years since the Monteverdi ensembles’ last London performance of Verdi’s monumental work which took place at St Paul’s Cathedral on 13 July, 1998. The performance on 18 September will be the only UK date on the Monteverdi ensembles’ European tour that will visit a prestigious roster of major European venues. The tour begins in Wroclaw on 16 September to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Poland – and concludes at the
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam in November.