Friday, December 1,  7.30PM
Saturday, December 2,  2.30PM
Sunday, December 3,  3.00PM
Symphony Hall 

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Hallelujah for the holidays! Tickets are now on sale for one of Boston's most beloved traditions, Handel's Messiah. Bring your friends and family and experience "Boston's most compelling local performance" (Boston Globe) complete with "The Trumpet Shall Sound" and the "Hallelujah" Chorus.

Laurence Cummings, conductor
Sari Gruber, soprano
Daniel Taylor, countertenor
Iain Paton, tenor
James Maddalena, baritone

The Royal Academy of Music's Laurence Cummings conducts Boston's "gold standard" performance of Handel's Messiah. The Messiah was written in 1741 for Dublin in an extraordinarily short amount of time: six days for Part One; nine days for Part Two, and Part Three took just another six days. The proceeds for the performances went to three Dublin charities. Paradoxically, librettist Charles Jennens chose more passages from the Old Testament than the New. Handel drew on the international genres of his day: French opera overture, German Lutheran Passions, Italian opera arias, and the English anthem tradition. Haydn famously wept when he heard the "Hallelujah chorus" and exclaimed, "He is the master of us all!"

For further information:
http://gfhandel.org/ m essiahlibretto.htm
Libretto