Queen City Opera recently used the Bärenreiter edition of Verdi’s Requiem for a production that commemorated the Jewish musicians of the Terezín Concentration Camp, who performed the work in the 1940s as an act of defiance. Rather than mandating a single editorial interpretation, the edition freed us to explore a wide range of possibilities by highlighting ambiguities in Verdi’s score.

Isaac Selya
Conductor
Music Director of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic 

Founder and Artistic Director of Queen City Opera

Cello Teaching Artist and Conductor at the MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra