One way or another, Handel’s Messiah these days is as omnipresent ... he would steal a few arias from the first soprano and slip them to the second. To further befuddle historians, Handel ...
Leontis’ brilliance shone particularly in the soprano aria, “Rejoice gently, O daughter of Zion.” Stout reduced the accompaniment to solo violin and cello — Taylor and Nathaniel Parke — before being ...
Solo arias will include the baritone “Why do Nations Rage So Furiously Together?” and “The Trumpet Shall Sound,” as well as the soprano “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth.” Choruses are “Worthy Is the ...
Jonathan Keates: She sang the wonderful aria “He Was Despised” so movingly that Delaney got ... Andrew Megill returns to the podium, and it will be Molly Quinn, the soprano to sing “I Know that My ...
With close to 50 choruses, arias, and duets and a complete run time of three hours, Messiah has long been subject to excised numbers and abbreviated ... Singing mostly from memory and unencumbered by ...
Throughout December, Messiah is nearly inescapable in New York ... Ton Coopman conducts the New York Philharmonic and Musica Sacra with soprano Maya Kherani, countertenor Marrten Engeltjes ...
Soprano Olivia Doig, right, performs alongside conductor Mary Hopper during a Dec. 22 presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in La Grange. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer ...
Dr. King is a professor at Georgetown and the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” When Charles Jennens, a wealthy art collector ...
The Yankees announced that they have acquired right-hander Michael Arias from the Cubs in exchange for cash considerations. The latter club had designated Arias for assignment earlier this week.