
World Premiere: Gates of Heaven: Requiem for a Life of Peace Jack Hui Litster
OperOttawa
Text is from the OperOttawa website.
Jack Hui Litster’s “Gates of Heaven: Requiem for a Life of Peace” is written for female voices and chamber orchestra. His previous commissions for OperOttawa depicted childbirth (The Day You Were Born), then love (What is Love?), and now his Requiem explores the journey through the gateway of death into the next life (In Paradisum).









