Known as a creator of astonishing images, stage director and visual artist Robert Wilson delivers a magnificent production of Mozart’s adaption of Handel’s Messias. Mozart was commissioned by Gottfried van Swieten to modernise the score fifty years after Handel’s popular composition (1742), mainly by arranging the wind parts and partially re-composing them. With Marc Minkowski a conductor has been engaged who understands perfectly how to combine baroque style with the tonal possibilities of an orchestra of the classical period like the Musiciens du Louvre. The excellent soloist quartet with Elena Tsallagova, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Richard Croft and José Coca Loza merges perfectly into Wilson’s enormous flood of images.
Released: Aug 14, 2020
Runtime: 135 minutes
Genre: Music
Stars: Elena Tsallagova, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Richard Croft, José Coca Loza, Alexis Fousekis, Max Harris
Crew: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Music), Georg Friedrich Händel (Music), Marc Minkowski (Conductor), Stephanie Engeln (Set Designer), Manuela Halligan (Makeup Designer), John Torres (Lighting Design)