Georg Friedrich Händel – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Messiah

concert Oratorio 14
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Hungarian State Opera
Running time including interval
  • Part I:
  • Intermission:
  • Part II:

Language English

Surtitle Hungarian, English


Proclaiming (notably with the popular “Hallelujah” chorus) the coming and resurrection of the Saviour, Messiah remains to this day one of the most popular of Handel’s works. A little under half a century after its 1742 world premiere in Dublin, it was performed for the first time in the revised and rescored German-language version Der Messias created by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The “German Messiah” thus is the fruit of an extraordinary “collaboration” between two geniuses: the scintillating brilliance of Händel as interpreted by Mozart.

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