Handel's Messiah - LIVE in cinemas from King's College, Cambridge APRIL 5th 2009

Handel's Messiah LIVE in cinemas from King's College, Chapel Sunday 5th April 2009 7.30pm (UK) 8.30pm (Euro) The Choir of King's College, Cambridge Academy of Ancient Music Ailish Tynan - soprano Alice Coote - mezzo soprano Allan Clayton - tenor Matthew Rose - bass Stephen Cleobury - conductor In celebration of University of Cambridge 800th Anniversary Handel 250th Anniversary Easter festival at Kings College, Cambridge for participating cinemas please visit www.artsalliancemedia.com/Opera

George Frideric Handel was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Handel received important training in Halle-upon-Saale and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.

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