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Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín
Thursday, November 19, 2026
7:30 p.m.
Imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, conductor Rafael Schächter taught Verdi's Requiem to fellow prisoners from a single smuggled score; they sang it sixteen times, once before senior SS officials from Berlin and a delegation from the International Red Cross. Murry Sidlin's concert-drama Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín surrounds a complete performance of the Requiem with video testimony from survivors of that original chorus and footage from the 1944 Nazi propaganda film about the camp.
Duke Family Performance Hall
207 Faculty Drive, Davidson College
Davidson, NC
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín
Thursday, November 19, 2026
7:30 p.m.
Imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, conductor Rafael Schächter taught Verdi's Requiem to fellow prisoners from a single smuggled score; they sang it sixteen times, once before senior SS officials from Berlin and a delegation from the International Red Cross. Murry Sidlin's concert-drama Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín surrounds a complete performance of the Requiem with video testimony from survivors of that original chorus and footage from the 1944 Nazi propaganda film about the camp.
Duke Family Performance Hall
207 Faculty Drive, Davidson College
Davidson, NC