Händel / Mozart: Der Messias

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Händel / Mozart: Der Messias (2020)

Directed by Tiziano Mancini, Robert Wilson

Music · 2h 16m

Known as a creator of astonishing images, stage director and visual artist Robert Wilson delivers a magnificent production of Mozart’s adaption of Handel’s Messias. Mozart was commissioned by Gottfried van Swieten to modernise the score fifty years after Handel’s popular composition (1742), mainly by arranging the wind parts and partially re-composing them. With Marc Minkowski a conductor has been engaged who understands perfectly how to combine baroque style with the tonal possibilities of an orchestra of the classical period like the Musiciens du Louvre. The excellent soloist quartet with Elena Tsallagova, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Richard Croft and José Coca Loza merges perfectly into Wilson’s enormous flood of images.

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Cast

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Elena Tsallagova Sopran Wiebke Lehmkuhl Alt Richard Croft Tenor José Coca Loza Bass Alexis Fousekis Dancer
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Max Harris Old Man
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Leopoldine Richards Child
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Philharmonia Chor Wien
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Les Musiciens du Louvre

Crew

Director
Tiziano Mancini, Robert Wilson

Details

Original title
Handel's Messiah Directed by Robert Wilson
Release date
2020-08-14
Runtime
2h 16m
Genres
Music
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
Latin
Countries
Austria
Production
3sat, ORF, Unitel, CMajor