The Scotsman
By David Kettle
FIVE STARS
Edinburgh International Festival: It’s become a cliché to say that in his Requiem, Verdi transplanted the drama of the opera house into the church – or, in this case, the concert hall.
But when the performers are soloists, orchestra and chorus from Turin’s Teatro Regio, already in town for stagings of Macbeth and La bohème, that statement becomes all the more true.
This was a magnificently hair-raising account under Gianandrea Noseda – unashamedly theatrical, but never calculating or played for shallow effect. He kept his forces on a tight leash, yet it still felt as if we were discovering the work for the first time. Expansive and unhurried in slower movements, he drove Verdi’s faster music onwards furiously...