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Messiah

Bridgewater HallManchester, North-West, M2 3WS, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Saturday 06 December 202518:00
Performers
Jeannette SorrellConductor
Carine TinneySoprano
Alice CooteMezzo-soprano
Thomas ElwinTenor
Henry WaddingtonBass-baritone
The Hallé
The Hallé Choir
Matthew HamiltonChoirmaster / chorus director

Grammy winner Jeannette Sorrell is joined by some of the country’s finest opera stars and the Hallé Choir for an innovative and theatrical production of Handel’s classic.

Jeannette Sorrell’s approach to Handel’s Messiah has been universally praised for its refreshingly unique interpretation. In this concert, we’ll explore its dramatic potential to full effect – after all, an oratorio is effectively an opera, just without the staging and costumes – and Sorrell takes the view that a more theatrical production is precisely what Handel intended.  

Messiah is 284 years old this year and has been performed countless times in that period (the Hallé alone have performed it almost every year – sometimes more than once – since 1859). Tonight’s concert provides a strikingly original take on this much-loved work. 

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