Berlioz and Mozart in Tucson

For her first performances of 2026 on January 23 and 25, Angela Brower is the soloist for Berlioz’s cantata Cléopâtre, on the first of her two weeks with the TSO. Maestro Gomez introduces the music of Olivier Messiaen with the intensely spiritual Les Offrandes oubliées (the Forgotten Offerings). Debussy’s impressionistic symphonic tone poems, La mer and Ibéria, take center stage in this all-French–Iberian-peninsula program.

On January 31 and February 1, she sings the mezzo solo in Mozart’s Requiem alongside Margot Rood, Omar Najmi and Edward Vogel.

Mozart died at the age of 35 before he was able to complete his masterful Requiem. Maestro Gomez has conceived a “completion” by commissioning Tucson composer Dan Coleman to compose a work connecting the Requiem to Mozart’s choral gem Ave verum corpus. The program also features Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte.