By Megan
Link: https://bristololdvic.org.uk/whats-on/messiah
Available until: If you buy a
Season Pass you’ll have access until 28th February. Or you can rent
it for 48 hours.
I love the Messiah. My mum
sang it at the Royal Albert Hall and my uncle sang it at the Barbican but I
didn’t go because I wasn’t born yet. It is a really beautiful piece of music by
George Frideric Handel and this production is especially magical.
The Messiah isn’t a
theatrical work. It is an oratorio which is written for a choir and four
soloists – a soprano, a contralto or mezzo-soprano (or sometimes a counter
tenor), a tenor and a bass or baritone, though sometimes there are extra
soloists like having a counter tenor as well as a contralto. Something else
that sometimes happens is that a boy treble will sing some of the soprano music
and that happened in the Bristol Old Vic’s production.
