Messiah HWV 56 by Händel, az. 28 abe. 2022, Noiztik (2022/2023), Zuzendaria Gergely Kesselyák, Eiffel Mühelyház, Budapest, Hungary

How can this large-scale, abstract oratorical work be realized on stage? András Almási-Tóth's vision - somewhat rhyming with the concept of Porgy and Bess, which stirred up a lot of dust - takes place in a kind of imagined future. People are lonely, and children are hardly born anymore. An unexpected natural disaster drives the characters to a temporary shelter. Among them is the strange "prophet" whom no one listens to, as well as the woman who cares for her elderly mother and a pregnant young woman with her husband, who is struggling to cope with the responsibilities of fatherhood. The first night at the shelter comes, and the pregnant woman dreams that her unborn son will be the one who will eradicate loneliness and lead people towards each other again....