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Fabio Biondi, making his New York Philharmonic debut, leads the New York Phil, the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, and a quartet of soloists in a Messiah that emphasizes momentum.

Blue could hardly have been better rendered than here. Indeed, I wish every opera I see could be staged with such grace and finesse.