It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

With the success of Messiah, Handel finally gave up opera and turned to oratorio, most of them based on biblical subjects: Esther, Israel in Egypt, Solomon, Samson, Saul and many others.

The Messiah is a collection of gnomic scriptural passages that are prophetic in import but offer no story at all. “It has nothing that could be called a plot,” King observes.

Handel’s Messiah, an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, has become one of the best known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.

Handel’s 18th-century masterpiece “The Messiah” is reimagined and infused with Gospel, Jazz and R&B. Handel’s 18th-century masterpiece, “The Messiah,” has been reimagined and infused ...

George Frideric Handel’s the “Messiah” is being performed this weekend by the Handel Choir of Baltimore. Here are five fun facts about the maestro and his music.

The Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square perform "Hallelujah," from Messiah. Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741 ...

The chapter on 'Printed Editions' in Watkins Shaw's A Textual and Historical Companion to Handel's 'Messiah' (1965) gives a summary of the publication of music from Messiah (John Walsh the younger) ...

IDAHO FALLS — The Idaho Falls Symphony is proud to present a very special holiday performance of Handel’s “Messiah” on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Frontier Center for the ...

It was almost surprising that when Stout began conducting the Overture to “Messiah,” Handel’s much less explosive forces drew attention to its sheer beauty. Stout’s approach is traditional, neither ...

Reasons for the Messiah ’s enduring power are manifold, though certainly they begin with the music itself, which manages to join the lofty and the populist, as does all of Handel’s work.