Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 6 Dec 2022 will launch a new style classical music concert experience centred on the most famous works ever written. With ...

The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph, Exodus and Moses ...

Conductor Peter Whelan leads a finely judged and agile period-instrument performance with only 13 singers.

"Messiah is unique in the canon of Western music," writes Maestro Richman. "Performed every year since its premiere in 1742 to ever-growing audiences, its appeal knows no boundaries." The first ...

Lucille Kincaid shares stories of famous classical composers who found themselves in funny, sticky, or interesting situations ...

The London Handel Festival has been an important part of the classical music calendar for some 40 years, but I felt it was not recognised enough outside the world of Handelian cognoscenti, and we ...

In 1746 George Frideric Handel was commissioned to compose an oratorio for a victory celebration. He based the work on the heroic story of Judah Maccabee – the Jewish leader who defended his country ...

🎧Hear the sound of hundreds of Chicagoans joining together in a “Hallelujah” moment by clicking the play button above. Chicago just spent another week in the national spotlight, as President Donald ...

If the classical industry has a favorite holiday, it’s most certainly Christmas, with all those seat-filling “Messiah”s and “Nutcracker”s, but Death of Classical is making a claim for Memorial Day ...

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