Pandemic postpones a profound existential journey of the heart

By Leonard Turnevicius Contributing Columnist Hamilton Spectator

Wed., May 20, 2020

They were going to end their season on a high note this Saturday.

More than 80 choristers, 45 orchestral musicians plus offstage trumpeters, and a quartet of soloists led by internationally acclaimed Canadian soprano Erin Wall, mezzo Kristine Dandavino, tenor Romulo Delgado, and bass-baritone Chad Louwerse, all under the baton of Southern Ontario Lyric Opera’s artistic director, Sabatino Vacca, in a 19th-century masterpiece, Giuseppe Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem.”…