An intimate and deeply expressive performance of Handel’s Messiah from The Sixteen Of course, everyone knows the Hallelujah Chorus. At last night’s performance of The Messiah by The Sixteen, the audience dutifully, if hesitantly, stood at the appropriate point. Legend has it that the tradition began at the first London performance of the Messiah in […]
Purcell The Fairy Queen – The Sixteen
The Fairy Queen is purportedly an operatic adaption of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream but the two works have next to nothing in common. The Fairy Queen includes no Shakespeare but does include the addition of Gods, Spirits, Monkeys, the four seasons and Chinese dancers