Concert Details
Handel: Messiah
8th December 2012
7pm, Gloucester Cathedral
- Soprano: Lisa Wilson (pictured)
- Mezzo-Soprano: Elizabeth Fleming
- Tenor: Paul Badley
- Bass: John Savournin
- Orchestra: Corelli Orchestra
- Musical Director: Adrian Partington
Tickets will be now only be available on the door. Still some available in all areas.
Georg Frideric Handel lived life to the full. He threw himself wholeheartedly into everything: food, liquor, and friendship; work, business and music. His boundless vitality sings out from every bar of Messiah. Its first performance in Dublin in 1742 was one of the greatest triumphs of Handel’s career. “Words are wanting,” gushed one ecstatic Dubliner, “to express the exquisite delight it afforded to the admiring crowded audience.” Messiah dramatizes the relationship of the believer with Christ: from prophecy, through death and resurrection, to the certainty of eternal life. The work’s combination of profound faith and operatic vividness – culminating in the joyous outburst of the ‘Hallelujah’ chorus – is irresistible. “‘Messiah’ was allowed by the greatest Judges to be the finest Composition of Musick that ever was heard.” Dublin Journal, 1742