Handel: Messiah the 250th Anniversary Performance

N/A1992

Music

Storyline

Sir Neville Marriner conducts this 250th Anniversary performance. Soloists include Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie Van Otter. The performance is supported by an informative background film "For Ever and Ever", explaining the circumstances behind the composition and the work's early impact, featuring contributions from the popular Handel scholar Professor H.C. Robbins Land and from Sir Neville Marriner himself. Recorded in 1992, this performance of Handel's awesome "Messiah" took place on the 250th anniversary of the initial rendition of the piece. Recorded at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, this is an especially poignant rendition as it takes place in the city where it was originally performed in 1742.

Cast

Sylvia McNair

Self - Soprano

Anne Sofie von Otter

Self - Mezzo-soprano

Michael Chance

Self - Counter-tenor

Jerry Hadley

Self - Tenor

Robert Lloyd

Self - Bass

Neville Marriner

Self - Conductor

Academy of St. Martin in the fields

Orchestra