It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

His stature is owed above all to a single work—the oratorio Messiah ... of the figures are directly connected to Handel, and ...

One of my fondest memories of Handel’s “Messiah” is a school trip to New ... lines as they trade back and forth. Click on the image below to hear it. Another great example of text painting ...

Dr. King is a professor at Georgetown and the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” When Charles Jennens, a wealthy art collector ...

Charles King’s lively, richly detailed narrative history traces the progress of Handel’s Messiah from ink-stained manuscript to beloved standard of classical repertoire, both during Handel’s ...