El Mesías de Händel

Oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel on biblical texts, presented at the Palau de la Música Catalana with Lucy Crowe among its performers.

Messiah is an oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel, composed in 1741 to a libretto by Charles Jennens based on passages from the Bible. It premiered in Dublin in 1742 and is one of the most frequently performed choral works in the Western tradition. It is divided into three parts that alternate recitatives, arias and choruses, among them the Hallelujah chorus.

Händel, born in Germany, spent much of his career in London, where he became a naturalised British subject. This production is presented at the Palau de la Música Catalana, a modernist building designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner and inaugurated in 1908, which hosts concerts and cultural activities in Barcelona.

The performers include Lucy Crowe, alongside the rest of the cast of this version of the work.