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

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

Making Handel’s Messiah a major occasion — rather than a mere Christmas revisitation — is close to impossible, though not at the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Friday opening of a three-performance Kimmel ...

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

Join the 37th annual Messiah Sing at Zion Episcopal Church in Rome on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. Audience members are invited to ...

A local community chorale has a new concert program featuring collaborations with regional singers to form a nearly ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...