Paris abandons Messiah

Paris abandons Messiah

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norman lebrecht

January 05, 2022

The Théâtre du Châtelet has cancelled this month’s 10-day run of Handel’s Messiah, staged by Deborah Warner, due to raging Covid infections.

The theatre said: ‘More than 200 people, artists and staff, are directly involved every day in this show. The current risks are too high for us to be able to accommodate a production of this magnitude.’

The soloists were to have been Anna Devin, Christine Rice, Allan Clayton and Christopher Purves. The conductor was Stefano Montanari.

Comments

  • MusicBear88 says:

    Christopher Purves is probably my favorite bass-baritone in Handel. In his recording with Emmanuelle Haïm, he ornaments down to a low B (yes, that one) and up to a high A with no sign of difficulty. Is it in good taste? Questionable, but since when is baroque ornamentation supposed to be in good taste?

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