The Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera will be performing under guest conductor Christoph Poppens’ baton as part of St David’s Hall International Concert Series, on Friday 16 November 2012 at 7.30pm .

The repertoire includes Mozart Masonic Funeral Music and Mozart’s Requiem which features Elizabeth Watts, Márie Flavin, Andrew Tortise and Neal Davies as soloists. Between these works, the Orchestra is joined by two soloists from WNO, pianist Simon Phillippo and Principal Trumpet Dean Wright, in three movements from the Requiem by Hans Werner Henze .

The music in the evenings’ programme reflects on humans complex responses to death, moving from grief to celebration of lives.