Admission is free.
The performance will feature the Cornell Orchestra, the Cornell Concert Choir and Chorale and the Mount Vernon Community Choir, all under the direction of associate professor of music Martin Hearne. Soloists will be soprano Lisa Hearne and bass Jonathon Thull, voice instructors at Cornell, and mezzo-soprano Laurie Seely and tenor Ezechial Thurman, graduate students at the University of Iowa. The music is tremendously demanding. Its power and drama are stirring depictions of the text. At the request of Mozart's widow, his pupil F.X. Sussmayr completed the score, using Mozart's sketches and modeling unfinished movements after other music by Mozart.