Verdi Requiem and Gordon Getty

James Gaffigan leads the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus in Verdi’s Requiem, the Symphony’s first time performing it since 2011. Crude as a gut punch, tender as a kiss, this Requiem translates the Latin mass for the dead into the vivid and visceral form of Italian opera. The program also includes the San Francisco Symphony premiere of several choral works by Gordon Getty, a longtime friend of the Symphony and one of San Francisco’s most celebrated composers.