Wonderful to have something of such quality on prime time Saturday night TV. It should happen regularly. Superb soloists, chorus a bit scrappy but the necessary distancing doesn’t help cohesion. Also it was an opera chorus, not a choir.
It’s a marvellous piece to sing. I’ve been in it several times. I think I was not the only one to join in! Luckily no-one could hear.
I wonder, though, why there wasn’t a translation of the words on screen? Not everyone knows them, and they do matter. The subtitles just said ‘Singing in Latin’, which wasn’t very informative.