Artist

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Vancouver Chamber Choir

Early Music Vancouver

Conductor

Alexander Weimann

Singer

Soprano

Sherezade Panthaki

Mezzo-soprano

Allyson McHardy

Tenor

Nicholas Scott

Bass

Jonathon Adams

Orchestra

The Pacific Baroque Orchestra

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Messiah -  (Messiah HWV 56)

Vancouver

Canada

Orpheum Theatre

Messiah Händel

Public

Messiah HWV 56

Juan Sebastián Cáceres Lara

Approved

In this Messiah production, shepherded by Alexander Weimann, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the outstanding soloists and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra embark on an inspired spiritual and artistic journey toward a new, vibrant way of unlocking Handel’s most masterful work.

“Even after having conducted this piece a few dozen times, and having played it some hundred times earlier, I am still puzzled how conclusive and coherent it comes to live in performance. It does not have a narrative as we would find in other oratorios, at least not at the surface, and the form is quite unusual. It feels like a novel whose protagonist we never directly meet, but carefully and gently approach through a sequence of portrayals and depictions of their birth, life, suffering, death and legacy, and what all that means to us. In my years of knowing the piece, I have found the Messiah a sacred, but not exclusively religious subject, rather the account of a universal and inclusive human quest.” (Alexander Weimann, March 2023)

English

Messiah HWV 56 by Händel, From (2023/2023), Conductor Alexander Weimann, Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, Canada

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