Händel / Mozart: Der Messias

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.

Country:

Austria

Genre:

Music

Duration:

136 minutes

Year:

2020

Director:

Tiziano Mancini

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Company:

3sat,

ORF,

Unitel,

CMajor

Cast:
Elena Tsallagova

Sopran

Wiebke Lehmkuhl

Alt

Richard Croft

Tenor

José Coca Loza

Bass

Alexis Fousekis

Dancer

Crew:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music

Georg Friedrich Händel

Music

Marc Minkowski

Conductor

Stephanie Engeln

Set Designer

Manuela Halligan

Makeup Designer