The opening bars of Verdi’s Requiem have never been so palpably mournful as the May Festival Chorus intoned the words “Requiem aeternam” – eternal rest.
That emotional moment began a masterful, 90-minute journey that was both deeply personal and terrifying in its power. Making her festival debut, guest conductor Eun Sun Kim, 37, expertly balanced the forces of the 120-voice May Festival Chorus, a quartet of superb soloists, trumpeters in the gallery and the full Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra…
