Mozarts Requiem at the Hall Auditorium - 1026 Words

Mozart’s Requiem The concert this year took place on Saturday March 15, 2014 at Hall Auditorium at 7:30 PM. It was called Mozart’s Requiem. Before the Requiem there was a brief piece titled The Strauss Serenade. The Miami University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ricardo Averbach, the Chamber Singers conducted by William Bausano, and the Collegiate Chorale conducted by Jeremy D. Jones performed the Requiem. The main similarity between Requiem, Opera and Oratorio is that they are all complex works of music. An Opera is generally a kind of music that borrows a lot from the art scenes. Opera involves a lot of acting, scenery and also a lot of costumes are used during its performance. An opera piece can also involve dancing and it is often done in a theatre setting. During the Baroque Era, opera performances gained a lot of publicity especially in Italy. It involved a lot of comic dances, which was the main attraction to the audiences. As years went by, the actors came up with high level of costume design, which helped to raise the competition among these works even higher (Meetze). The people held the authors of opera pieces at that time in high esteem, and they remained influential individuals in the society. On the other hand, Oratorio is a kind of opera that does not involve use of costumes and play-acting. It often involves topics, which one would consider sacred, so it is most often p erformed in church. Unlike non-oratorio opera whose main topics include