Handel’s ‘Messiah’ returns to The Playhouse
One of the high points of Western music, Handel’s Messiah score abounds with a wealth of evergreen choral items.
THE Playhouse Company is bringing back Handel’s Messiah for an Easter Sunday matinee performance on 1 April at 3pm.
Directed by theatre luminary Ralph Lawson, the Company’s grandly staged production in Durban’s Opera Theatre features popular soloists, Khumbuzile Dhlamini (soprano), Violina Anguelov (mezzo), Thabiso Masemene (tenor) and Aubrey Lodewyk (baritone), with the 40-strong Playhouse Chorale and members of the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, performing under the baton of English conductor, Tim Murray.
Director Ralph Lawson shares his thoughts about this staging of the great work, which has become the world’s most frequently performed choral masterpiece since it was performed in Dublin in April 1742.
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“It’s wonderful to have the opportunity to work on a semi-staged version of Messiah, a work of genius that, on every hearing of it (even at rehearsal), bestows a glow of marvelous well-being. The thing that appeals to me most about the work and which I’m trying to bring out in the staging of it, is Handel’s humanity, which really infuses the work and makes a version like this possible.”
One of the high points of Western music, Handel’s Messiah score abounds with a wealth of evergreen choral items.
Among these are the magnificent ‘Hallelujah Chorus’, along with equally splendid numbers such as ‘For Unto Us A Child Is Born’, ‘And The Glory of the Lord’ and many more, as well as benchmark solos such as ‘Every Valley’, ‘He Was Despised’, ‘I Know That My Redeemer Liveth’, ‘O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion’, ‘Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion’, ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ and ‘Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage Together’, to name but a few.
Booking is through Computicket outlets. Tickets are from R110 and R130. Contact 0861 915 8000 or book online at www.computicket.com. Alternatively call the Playhouse Box Office on 031 369 9540 (office hours).
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