Adelaide festival to stage Verdi’s Requiem with a cast of hundreds – and a star choreographer

After Covid thwarted two attempts to bring out Christian Spuck's acclaimed Messa da Requiem, the festival has finally announced it as next year's centrepiece

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For Adelaide festival's 2023 opera centrepiece a cast of almost 200 singers, dancers and musicians will take the stage under the direction of one of the world's most celebrated choreographers.

Dance will be foregrounded in Messa da Requiem: the celebrated production of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Requiem by the German choreographer Christian Spuck, which debuted in Zurich in 2016.

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