Händel / Mozart: Der Messias
Known as a creator of astonishing images, stage director and visual artist Robert Wilson delivers a magnificent production of Mozart’s adaption of Handel’s Messias. Mozart was commissioned by Gottfried van Swieten to modernise the score fifty years after Handel’s popular composition (1742), mainly by arranging the wind parts and partially re-composing them. With Marc Minkowski a conductor has been engaged who understands perfectly how to combine baroque style with the tonal possibilities of an orchestra of the classical period like the Musiciens du Louvre. The excellent soloist quartet with Elena Tsallagova, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Richard Croft and José Coca Loza merges perfectly into Wilson’s enormous flood of images.
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Elena Tsallagova
Sopran
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl
Alt
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Richard Croft
Tenor
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Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Pelléas and Mélisande
José Coca Loza
Bass
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Polyphemus
Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
Alexis Fousekis
Dancer
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Fawns
Max Harris
Old Man
Leopoldine Richards
Child
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Philharmonia Chor Wien
Les Musiciens du Louvre
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Marc Minkowski at Mozartwoche
Robert Wilson Director · Tiziano Mancini Director Carlos Soto Costume designer
First release August 14, 2020 · Produced in Austria · Production ORF, Unitel
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3sat
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ORF
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Unitel
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CMajor
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Austria
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Original title
Handel's Messiah Directed by Robert Wilson
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
Latin
Release dates
Germany · August 14, 2020
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