Back by
popular demand, The Playhouse Company will present Handel’s magnificent Messiah on Easter Sunday, April 16 2017.
Messiah will feature popular soloists, Aubrey
Lodewyk, Khumbuzile Dlamini, Violina Anguelov, Thabiso Masemene as well as the
60-strong Playhouse Chorale and the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra directed by
Marcus Desando.
Desando,
who is originally from Pretoria, began his career as a singer in 1989 and went
on to sing in over 70 operas, musical theatre productions and concerts in South
Africa and abroad. He travelled the world singing and directing with New York
Harlem Productions, Really Useful Company, Pieter Toerien Productions and Cape
Town Opera. Having also directed over 40 productions ranging from opera to
concerts, Desando is the Chief Executive Officer of the Gauteng Opera (formerly
Black Tie Ensemble), as well as Chairman of the South African National Opera
Association.
Messiah is an enormously popular English-language
oratorio composed in 1741 by George Friederic Handel first performed in Dublin
in April 1742. After what has been described as a ‘modest’ initial public
reception, the oratorio has gained in popularity to the extent that it has
become one of the best-known, best-loved and most frequently performed choral
works in Western music.
Highlights
of this much-loved work include 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
for Messiah is at Computicket outlets
nationwide, and tickets can also be obtained from the Playhouse Box Office on 031
369 9540/9596. Discounted block bookings can be made by calling Dawn on 031 369
9407 or emailing her on salescoordinator@playhousecompany.com.
Come and
be a part of this tradition which features the world class KwaZulu-Natal
Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor, Naum Rousine.
Book now
to avoid disappointment.
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