It is impossible to find the ideal adjective to qualify the monumental spectacle offered by the Gran Teatre del Liceu with such a spectacular Requiem by Verdi. Seeing the great orchestra and the chorus on stage was already a clear omen of the dimensions of what was to come. An impression that increased exponentially when Lise Davidsen, Aigul Akhmetshina, Freddie de Tomasso, and Christian Van Horn appeared, together with the conductor of this great and exquisite multitude, Nicola Luissoti, a Verdian specialist who in some way and undoubtedly became another of the great protagonists of the apotheotic evening. Absolute control, millimetric tempos, precision in every indication, but, above all, passion, which he conveyed from the first moment and maintained throughout such an explosive and gigantic score, this “opera in ecclesiastical robes,” as Hans von Bülow defined it, not precisely as a compliment, although today it certainly is.