Vatican City, 11 March 2014 (VIS) –
The concert “Mozart's Requiem for Japan from the Vatican” will be
held today in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls to
commemorate the third anniversary of the earthquake that occurred in
Japan on 11 March 2011. This initiative, organised with the patronage
of the Japanese embassy to the Holy See, is intended to raise prayers
for the victims of the tsunami and the earthquake that afflicted
Japan in 2011.
The Gioacchino Rossini Symphony
Orchestra of Pesaro and the San Carlo choir from the same city,
conducted by the maestro Daniele Agiman, will perform Mozart's
Requiem at 8 p.m. Entry to the concert is free and open to all those
who wish to participate in this act of remembrance for this tragic
event which cost the lives of over fifteen thousand people, caused
fifty thousand casualties and left four thousand missing.
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