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POSTPONED TO 2022! – Handel’s Messiah
December 5, 2021 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
$25
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL DECEMBER 2022.
Scholars Baroque Aotearoa with NZ Barok Orchestra
SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER 2021 2:30PM
THE PLAZA, KENSINGTON ST, PUTARURU
Tickets $25
Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere nearly a year later. After an initially modest public reception, the oratorio gained in popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.
Handel wrote Messiah for modest vocal and instrumental forces. In the years after his death, the work was adapted for performance on a much larger scale, with giant orchestras and choirs. This performance will use a very similar number of singers and musicians as in the 1742 Dublin premiere. This combined with Scholars Baroque Aotearoa and NZ Barok being Baroque specialists it promises to be very authetic to Handel’s original intentions for Messiah.
Scholars Baroque Aotearoa is a chamber choir under the musical direction of Chalium Poppy.
Based in Tauranga, they are the only auditioned early music choral ensemble in the Bay of Plenty.
Performing stunning concerts throughout the year, their repertoire spans the history of choral music from early sixteenth century masterpieces to thrilling twenty-first century contemporaries.
Scholars Baroque Aotearoa have received international accolades for the New Zealand premières of choral works by Henry Purcell, Jean-Phillipe Rameau and Michael Haydn.
Comprising leading baroque specialists from all over New Zealand, NZ Barok performs using instruments and playing styles of the period, breathing fresh life and vitality into baroque and classical masterpieces and lesser-known musical treasures from the 18th century. The orchestra’s name pays tribute to the continuing Dutch-New Zealand connection in the early music scene from the 1970s until the present day. NZ Barok was formed in 2004 by Helen Brinkman and Graham McPhail with Miranda Hutton joining as artistic-co-director in 2010.
