Experience a live performance from the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra of Ludwig van Beethoven’s rarely performed and self-proclaimed “greatest work” this month.
The orchestra with soloists and choir (83 musicians) is hosting a performance of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 22, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains at 8th & Plum in Cincinnati.
The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis,” described by KSO music director James Cassidy as “the choral-orchestral equivalent to climbing Mt. Everest, as it offers a beautifully personal and powerful setting of liturgy, together with formidable challenges for its performers [musical, technical, endurance, tessitura, etc.]”
The KSO has engaged a 40-voice professional chorus to join soloists —Erin Keesy, Matilda Smolij, Pedro Barbosa and Stephen Hanna —for this engagement. Beethoven’s solemn mass has only been programmed four times in Greater Cincinnati since the 1972 May Festival performance under the direction of Leonard Bernstein.
For additional info and tickets, visit The KSO website or call (859) 431-6216.
