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HANDEL: MESSIAH Comes to Sydney Opera House Next Month
Two hundred and eighty years since it was first performed in Dublin in , Handel's Messiah remains one of the most loved pieces of classical music in the world, performed by hundreds of thousands of singers around the globe every Christmas.
This December it comes alive in spectacular form, presented by Australia's leading choral organisation on the country's most celebrated concert stage, conducted by the inimitable Brett Weymark.
With a sublime cast of soloists including Lorina Gora, Ashlyn Tymms - making her Sydney Opera Residence debut, Nicholas Jones, and Morgan Pearse, and one of the most strong Christmas choirs Sydney has ever seen, it's going to be a mighty season of performances.
Join Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for this momentous performance of Messiah - the first in Sydney Opera House's newly refurbished Concert Hall, 8pm Thursday December 8, 1pm Saturday & Sunday December 10 and
This year's concerts mark years since Sydney Philharmonia Choi
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John Cage
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Francis Poulenc
20th-century French composer Francis Poulenc was one of the first openly same-sex attracted composers, something that did not stop him upholding his religious faith.
Ethel Smyth
Composer and suffragette Dame Ether Smyth is rumoured to have met and fallen in love with novelist Virginia Woolf, who at the time described it as “like being caught by a giant crab”.
Aaron Copland
American composer Copland was a private man, but his letters have revealed a relationship between him and the visual creator Prentiss Taylor.
Samuel Barber
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Nico Muhly
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Benjamin Britten
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