Franz Welser-Möst and Asmik Grigorian in the Verdi Requiem at Carnegie Hall / Photo: Chris Lee
Asmik Grigorian recently sang in Verdi’s Requiem with The Cleveland Orchestra on tour at Carnegie Hall, with Christopher Corwin noting that her “ravishing soft singing was one of the evening’s highlights. Her gripping ‘Libera me,’ however, found her occasionally overmatched by Linda Wong’s vibrant 125-voice Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, a group capable of both the softest pianos and earth-shaking fortes.”
But just days before Grigorian’s performances at Carnegie Hall, Anna Netrebko sang what were (unbelievably) her first performances of the Requiem at the Müpa in Budapest. Netrebko will return to the Requiem in a series of performances at La Scala in the fall.
Of these two utterly different sopranos, which would you stare down death for?
Asmik Grigorian
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
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