It has been performed by chamber choirs and by choirs of over a thousand. It has been heard in churches, concert halls and opera houses. It has been played on period instruments and the instruments of our time. It has been added to by Mozart and refined by recent scholars of performance practice. It has been sung in German, French, Italian and even Chinese. Yet through all these traditions and permutations, one undeniable fact still remains: Handel’s Messiah is one of the most remarkable works of the choral literature and the only one that we perform every year without fail. It is one of our favourite pieces and we perform it this year with enough voices to raise the roof off the Sydney Opera House.

Conductor: Brett Weymark
Soloists: Penelope Mills, Tobias Cole, Paul McMahon,
Stephen Bennett
Sydney Philharmonia Symphony  & Messiah Chorus
Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra