Sun, 02 Nov
|St Mary's Pro-Cathedral
Mozart Requiem - CBS Choir & Orchestra
A 2 pm performance of Mozart’s Requiem by the CBS Choir and Orchestra, with soloists.
Time & Location
02 Nov 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, 373 Manchester Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand
About the Concert
Celebrated in many countries as “The Day of the Dead”, All Souls’ Day, November 2nd, will be marked this year at the Catholic Pro-Cathedral by a 2 pm performance of Mozart’s Requiem by the CBS Choir and Orchestra, with soloists.
Admission will be by programme $30 and $25, available at the door, with payment by cash or eftpos.
The famous Requiem was popularized mainly by the film Amadeus, which painted the composer creating music for his own death at the instigation of his rival Salieri. Much of that remarkable story is historically accurate, and its last pages were dictated on Mozart’s deathbed in 1791.
Nevertheless, the work contains some of his most heartfelt and expressive writing. The dramatic liturgical text summons a wide range of musical styles, ranging from majestic invocations of divine power to gentle pleas for mercy – such as the poignant Lacrymosa.
The Requiem will be preceded…