Dec
11

Hana Park

Soprano Soloist

Messiah

Handel Oratorio Society - Augustana College

Rock Island, IL

Hana Park – Soprano Soloist

Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah, is perhaps the most famous oratorio ever written and unique among Handel’s other ones. A German who initially made his fame writing Italian operas for English audiences, Handel found in the 1730s that the public wanted something new and more understandable. After composing some three dozen Italian operas, works of great musical brilliance but often dramatically inert and set to mediocre librettos, he shifted his energies to creating what are in essence sacred English operas.

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