« I’ve wanted to work on a requiem for a really long time. And there are always events in life that get you to go for it, to take on this or that project. It was the right moment.
In every requiem, whether it’s that of Mozart, Ligeti or Fauré, there are always really special moments, specific to each composer, which add something very distinctive. That’s why I’d like to work from several different requiems and perhaps add in a musical creation. With this piece, I’d like to evoke the complex feelings we have when we lose a loved one. It’s not always sad and devasting, there are almost moments of joy, when we recall wonderful memories we have of the person, which regenerate you, reinvigorate you. There’s also the idea of life itself, the miracle that is life, something extraordinary given to us. Sometimes we feel even more alive in these states of mind.
It was all these emotions, these nuances, this mosaic of feelings that flow through us that I wanted to develop in this project. »

Angelin Preljocaj - Interview extracts (May 2023)