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Into her second year as Music Director for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann conducts one of Verdi's greatest ever compositions, the astounding Requiem. The first ever woman to be appointed as ASO's Music Director, Stutzmann's star as a conductor is truly rising, making enormous waves at the 2023 Bayreuth Festival conducting Wagner's Tannhauser - only the second ever woman to conduct at the festivals 150 year history.

Requiem is one of Giuseppe Verdi most iconic pieces of music and was written honor of Alessandro Manzoni, a reknown Italian poet and novelist who passed away in 1873. Verdi could not bring himself to attend the funeral for his admired friend and artistic ally, instead creating a Requiem Mass in memory of Manzoni's life.