Handel's Messiah

Discovered at age nine and a celebrated composer by age eighteen, George Frideric Handel experienced a meteoric rise to success, with forty-two operas performed on three continents in his lifetime. As enduring as Handel's operatic work is, the prodigious German genius is best known for his oratorio Messiah. Now you can learn in poignant detail how Handel's magnum opus came to be.

• Lee GrobergDirector
• Mitch DavisWriter

• Jane SeymourNarrator
• Alan MitchellGeorge Frederic Handel
• Julianna PirilloSusannah Cibber
• Simon HedgerCharles Jennens
• Alexander FuchsYoung Handel
• Kirby BolickRobert Jennens