CMNZ | Reimagining Mozart (Wanaka)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / (arr. Robert Wiremu) | Requiem in D minor K. 626

Robert Wiremu (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Porou) commemorates the tragedy of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 by reimagining Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem, which was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1791. Wiremu has imagined that one of the passengers may have had a state-of-the-art Walkman containing a recording of the Requiem. At the moment of impact, the notes are carried into the Antarctic air by the winds around Ross Island, up Mt Erebus, across from the continental mainland, over the icebergs of the surrounding seas. Fragmented, scattered, broken, the notes are often recognisable as Mozart, but not always.

Reimagining Mozart is presented in partnership with the Dunedin Arts Festival and Wānaka Festival of Colour.

Additional performances:

• Dunedin: 30 March