The performance began with the two male soloists, tenor Orson Van Gay and bass-baritone Shyheim Selvan Hinnant, singing in ...

Some Chicagoans came to appreciate “Messiah” as a piece of music with appeal that extended beyond its Christian themes.

Handel’s Messiah is one of the most popular classical compositions played at the holidays. Filled with biblical passages and ...

Handel’s “Messiah” is a long-cherished tradition at the Seattle Symphony, and one that takes a different form every year. New and different soloists and conductors; changes in instrumentation in the ...

My goal was to take the Messiah as if it had been written yesterday,” the conductor and eminent French harpsichordist Christophe Rousset told Tom Service on Radio 3 on Saturday. “[It would be] as if ...

Like Starbucks rolling out its festively colored holiday cups, performances of “Messiah” make an inevitable appearance each December. For many, it’s as much a part of the season as twinkling lights ...

Few people know this fact about Handel’s “Messiah,” his quintessential, reverential masterpiece written in 1741: Mozart, himself, did his own arrangement of the work using more horns and far less ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on ...

In this holiday season of traditional entertainment, an interesting version of a beloved classical oratorio elbows its way into the yearly lineup. Music Director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony ...