Event listing: Bristol Proms: Messiah | Bristol Old Vic | Sat 3 Aug 2013 at 19:30

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Bristol Old VicKing Street Bristol, Bristol, South-West, BS1 4ED, United Kingdom

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Southbank Sinfonia
The Erebus Ensemble
Simon Over	Conductor
Caroline MacPhie	Soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers	Mezzo-soprano
Andrew Tortise	Tenor
Toby Yapp	Bass
Neal Davies	Bass

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A guided tour of Handel's Messiah

Jane Shuttleworth, 21st October

Jane Shuttleworth is your personal guide around Handel’s greatest hit, from the solemn overture to the energetic and complex final fugue.

A Species of Musick Different From Any Other: Handel's Messiah

Paul Kilbey, 1st November

“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.

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Handel's Messiah reworked for the last night of the Bristol Proms

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 3rd August

The last night of the Bristol Proms was experimental. A full house at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre was greeted by artistic director Tom Morris to introduce this semi-staged version of Handel’s Messiah – last performed in the venue in 1782, when it was too sacrilegious for churches. Morris said that Handel was “a dramatist”, and to honour this, he took a more theatrical route with this performance.

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