Handel, Messiah

Synopsis

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death, Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, famous for innovative and unconventional opera productions, realized a unique and truly extraordinary project: the staging of one of Handel’s most popular oratorios. For this production, the theater signed up one of the most renowned stage directors of our time, Claus Guth. The result: ‘An emotionally and psychologically charged sequence of images’, as the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote about Guth’s portrayal of a family dynasty, complete with guilt, betrayal, suicide and reconciliation.

Additional Info

• No: A04001515
• Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel
• Conductor: Jean-Christophe Spinosi
• Orchestra: ENSEMBLE MATHEUS / Chorus: Arnold Schönberg Chor
• Artists: Susan Gritton, Cornelia Horak, Martin Poellmann, Bejun Mehta, Richard Croft
• Production year: 2009
• Run time: 02:35:00
• Director: Hannes Rossacher / Claus Guth
• Producers: a co-production of ORF, Arte and UNITEL, in cooperation with Theater an der Wien and CLASSICA
• Format: HDTV