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Royal Melbourne Philharmonic: Dan Forrest’s REQUIEM FOR THE LIVING and the 2025 RMP ARIA FINAL
At the afternoon matinee concert, the RMP Oratorio Festival Choir and Orchestra will present a magnificent one hour long concert featuring Forrest’s acclaimed ‘Requiem for the Living’, as well as a short program of beautiful sacred works for choir and orchestra.
At the evening Gala, the 6 Finalists of the 2025 RMP ARIA will battle it out for the chance to win Australia’s most prestigious oratorio singing competition. At the end of the Final, RMP Chief Conductor Andrew Wailes will conduct a performance of Forrest’s ‘Requiem for the Living’ featuring over 150 performers of the RMP Oratorio Festival Choir with Full Orchestra and outstanding soloists.
Please note that the Aria Final will only take place at 7pm. The afternoon performance will not include entry to the evening Final.
Hear some of the nation’s finest young singers battle it out in the final of Australia’s most prestigious oratorio soloists award, accompanied on piano, as well as a spectacular orchestral performance of Dan Forrest’s stunning “Requiem for the Living” – a beautiful and uplifting work, which has been hailed as “… a twenty-first century masterpiece”.
Requiem for the Living is a major choral symphonic composition in five movements by young American composer Dan Forrest, who is quickly emerging as one of that country’s most popular and important choral composers. Completed in 2013, it is a non-conventional and extended setting of the Requiem Mass, scored for boy soprano, soprano, choir and orchestra, and organ. The Latin text that Forrest set combines sections from the Requiem with biblical texts from Ecclesiastes and the Book of Job.
About Dan Forrest’s “REQUIEM FOR THE LIVING” “… a twenty-first century masterpiece”
Featuring : ; Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir; Melbourne University Choral Society, Box Hill Chorale; with soloists (TBA), organ, and orchestra
conducted by Andrew Wailes
- Sat 16 Aug 03:00 PM | The Edge, Federation Square
- Sat 16 Aug 07:00 PM | The Edge, Federation Square
3pm, Matinee performance (concert only) JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT:
7pm, Evening Gala (includes concert at the Final of the 2025 RMP Aria)
TICKETS: 3pm Matinee: “Requiem for the Living” $29.00 – $49.00 A one-hour concert featuring a full-scale performance of Dan Forrest’s ‘Requiem for the Living’ and a program of short sacred works designed to soothe and inspire.
Session begins: 7.00pm Session Ends: 10.00pm 7pm Evening Gala and Aria Final $39.00 – $59.00