With an orchestra comprised of Baroque Era instruments, and a performance guided by Milnes’s extensive research into Handel’s ...

In its 26th year, American Bach Soloists' performance of Handel's beloved oratorio is still fresh and urgent.

Making Handel’s Messiah a major occasion — rather than a mere Christmas revisitation — is close to impossible, though not at ...

Some Chicagoans came to appreciate “Messiah” as a piece of music with appeal that extended beyond its Christian themes.

"Messiah is unique in the canon of Western music," writes Maestro Richman. "Performed every year since its premiere in 1742 to ever-growing audiences, its appeal knows no boundaries." The first ...

A beloved Nashville holiday tradition returns Dec. 17-20, when the Nashville Symphony and Chorus perform George Frederic Handel’s stunning "Messiah" at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Full of passion, ...

The Dallas Bach Society performs Handel's 'Messiah' at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021.

Performers onstage for the Dallas Bach Society's 2024 performance of Handel's "Messiah." L to R, soprano Kara McBain, mezzo-soprano Dianna Grabowski, conductor and artistic director James Richman, ...

Part of the origin story behind one of the best-loved classical oratorios is a real-life scandal involving a mix of blackmail, sex and redemption.

Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, is quite unlike Handel's other ones, let alone those by most earlier and later composers. A German who initially made his fame writing Italian operas ...

This season, Southwest Florida is home to more than two dozen holiday concerts ranging from Handel’s “Messiah” and FGCU’s “Joyful & Triumphant” to Gulf Coast Symphony’s “Deck the Halls” with aerial ...