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The premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem took place in Paris in June 2024 with Meryl Streep as narrator, soprano Anna Prohaska, the singers of the Maîtrise de Radio France and Choeur de Radio France, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by the orchestra’s music director Mikko Franck.

Celebrated as a singer-songwriter, Rufus Wainwright credits Verdi’s setting of the Requiem Mass – which he first heard at the age of 13 – with revealing a new musical world for him. He has also composed two operas, Prima Donna (2009) and Hadrian (2018).

Wainwright’s ideas for Dream Requiem came together in 2020, at the time of both Covid-19 and a wave of catastrophic wildfires in California. “Dream Requiem recalls the people we have lost, and a period unlike any other,” he says. “The music speaks of death, but I wanted it to be inspiring and full of hope.” For Meryl Streep, speaking in an interview with BBC Radio 3, the “beauty and redemption” of Dream Requiem exemplifies the way “the human spirit, the desire to live and give voice to even despair, ends up being a reason to live.”

Like Benjamin Britten in his War Requiem, Wainwright juxtaposes English poetry with the Latin Mass for the Dead. The poem in the Dream Requiem is ‘Darkness’, written by Lord Byron in 1816. This was the so-called ‘Year without a Summer’ – the consequence of a massive volcanic eruption in what is now Indonesia. It had released a huge and persistent cloud of ash which obscured the sun in the northern hemisphere, causing radical disruption of the weather. Crops failed, leading to famine and disease.

For all its darkness, there is some sense of hope at the end of the Dream Reqiuem as the children’s voices of the Maîtrise de Radio France sing ‘In paradisum’, a vision of heaven that is both luminous and enigmatic.