Early Music Vancouver with The Vancouver Chamber Choir & The Pacific Baroque Orchestra present Handel’s Messiah with soprano Sherezade Panthaki, alto Allyson McHardy, tenor Nicholas Scott, and bass Jonathan Adams, conducted by Alexander Weimann
“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)
December 8th, 2023 at 7:30pm
DATE: 8 Dec 2023, 7:30 pm
LOCATION: Early Music Vancouver