Orchestra and Master Chorale tp Perform Verdi's RequiemST. PETERSBURG – Hailed as “Verdi’s greatest opera” and “one of the most ambitious and lavish sacred works in the entire orchestral repertoire,” Music Director Stefan Sanderling and The Florida Orchestra (TFO) are joined by The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay to perform Verdi’s Requiem. With a combined force of over 250 voices and orchestra musicians, this Progress Energy Masterworks concert is two nights only: Saturday, March 7, at 8 p.m. at the Progress Energy Center for the Arts – Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, and Sunday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m., at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. And to learn more about the music and composer Giuseppe Verdi, concertgoers are invited to attend a pre-concert conversation in the hall one hour before curtain time. Tickets start at $19 for the general public and are only $10 for students and educators: 727.892.3337 or 1.800.662.7286, Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., or online at www.floridaorchestra.org.
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