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Bach Collegium Japan: Handel’s Messiah

Esplanade Concert Hall1 Esplanade Drive, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Dates/times in Singapore time zone
Saturday 26 December 202619:30
Sunday 27 December 202616:00
Programme
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)Messiah
Performers
Bach Collegium Japan
Masato SuzukiConductor
Miku YasukawaSoprano
Roxana ConstantinescuMezzo-soprano
Seil KimTenor
Yasushi HiranoBass-baritone

Bach specialist Masato Suzuki leads the Bach Collegium Japan's debut performance in Singapore in Handel’s Messiah.

Handel’s masterpiece tells of the birth and life of Jesus Christ, in spectacular choruses, moving arias and duets, and vivid recitatives. It was such a hit at its Dublin premiere in 1742 that gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to forego hooped skirts so that more people could fit in the theatre.

Over 280 years on, it remains a beloved classic, and for generations of fans is an essential part of the Christmas season.

Bach Collegium Japan, one of the world’s foremost period performance ensembles, uses instruments and techniques as close as possible to those Handel himself would have known.

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“It is difficult in no common degree to write anew concerning The Messiah,”1 said the music writer Henry F Chorley in 1859. The piece was, of course, 117 years old at the time, and there has only been more written on this landmark composition since. Handel’s Messiah is not just a popular classic, after all: it’s also a hugely important work.