Upcoming Performances

Mozart Requiem
(Duncan Druce Completion)

Saturday 28 November 2026
Saturday 5 December 2026

Tickets are available on Eventfinda.

When Mozart died in 1791 at the age of 35, he left his Requiem unfinished. Within months, his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr completed the work on behalf of Mozart's widow, Constanze. His version became one of the best-known works in the choral repertoire and remains the version most often performed today.

Yet Mozart's surviving sketches continued to raise questions. For more than two centuries, composers and scholars have revisited them, searching for clues to how Mozart himself might have completed his final masterpiece.

This concert presents one of the most fascinating answers to that question: the Duncan Druce completion. Created in 1984 by the English composer, performer and musicologist Duncan Druce, it draws on Mozart's surviving manuscript while rethinking parts of the traditional completion, offering a fresh perspective on one of classical music's best-loved works.

Kāpiti Chorale and Capital Choir join forces with orchestra and four outstanding soloists for two performances of this remarkable work. The programme also includes music by Mozart, Salieri, Haydn, Princess Te Rangi Pai and William Dawson before culminating in Mozart's Requiem.

Saturday 28 November 2026, 3.00pm
Te Raukura ki Kāpiti, Raumati Beach
Saturday 5 December 2026, 3.00pm
Riley Centre, Wellington High School, Wellington

Duration: Approximately two hours, including an interval.