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Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop artist page: listen to interviews, features and music archived at NPR Music.

Featured stories:

  • Giuseppe Verdi poured operatic drama into his <em>Requiem,</em> written in 1874 in memory of his friend Alessandro Manzoni.
    Music
    Verdi's Requiem: An Opera In Disguise
    Marin Alsop
    As an opera composer, Verdi was always conscious of dramatic effect. With off-stage trumpets, a pounding bass drum and four vocal soloists, his Requiem Mass really packs a wallop. Conductor Marin Alsop muses on the human story and vivid drama behind one of the master's greatest works.
  • Music
    Building A Career On Barber, The Enigmatic American
    Marin Alsop
    To begin her recording career, conductor Marin Alsop was asked to record all of Samuel Barber's orchestral music. She quickly discovered that there's much more to the composer's music than his famed Adagio for Strings.