The Camden Choir goes Italian this Autumn. We shall be performing Puccini’s magnificent Messa di Gloria, first staged in the church of Sts Paolino and Donato in Lucca (where Puccini had previously been an organist) on 12 July 1880. 

We shall also sing his Requiem, composed in 1905, as a tribute for the fourth anniversary of Verdi’s death, and Rossini’s haunting Ave Maria. In addition, our soloists will perform arias by Verdi, Rossini and Puccini.