Four of the city’s best-known productions are remarkably different yet still deeply satisfying in their individual approaches to the perennial masterpiece.

Here are the pop, rock, punk, baroque, and genre-bending artists that brought down the house on Boston stages in 2024.

The Dec. 15 sold-out audience at Rutland’s Grace Church was treated to an unexpected joy. George Frederic Handel’s “Messiah” ...

Dr. King is a professor at Georgetown and the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” When Charles Jennens, a wealthy art collector ...

Since its premiere in 1742, George Frideric Handel's 3.5-hour oratorio for chorus, soloists and orchestra has become a ...

That “Messiah” was first performed in Dublin, where Handel had been invited to give a series of concerts in the winter of 1741-42—and not in London—is itself suggestive of a waning career.

George Frideric Handel wrote the music for “Messiah” during political and social unrest. Charles Jennens put together the text when experiencing deep despair.

Malone: George Friedrich Handel's "Messiah" tells the story of ... and conductor Marin Alsop They join the BBC Concert Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus, and the London Adventist Chorale.

Composed in 1741, Handel's Messiah tells the Biblical stories of ... the year before Labrie assumed the directorship. Sunday's concert features the following soloists: soprano Erin Matthews ...

But more consistently the more traditional concert presentation of Handel’s Messiah took place in December. Sometimes the Messiah was scheduled to coincide with the Advent calendar, while other ...