Recorded live at the State Library of NSW, this episode of Baroque Banter takes you on a captivating journey into the origins and afterlife of Handel’s Messiah.
Ahead of Pinchgut Opera’s upcoming performance of the Original 1742 Dublin Version, Dr Erin Helyard, Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, guides us through the rich history, context, and evolution of Handel’s masterpiece.
The episode also features a special live performance by mezzo-soprano Ashlyn Tymms, accompanied by Erin on harpsichord.
Select Bibliography
Donald Burrows, Handel: Messiah (Cambridge Music Handbooks, 1991)
Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford, 1992)
Charles King, Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah (Random House, 2024)
Ruth Smith, Charles Jennens: The Man Behind Handel’s Messiah (Handel House Trust, 2012)
Ruth Smith, Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
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Recorded live at the State Library of NSW, this episode of Baroque Banter takes you on a captivating journey into the origins and afterlife of Handel’s Messiah.
Ahead of Pinchgut Opera’s upcoming performance of the Original 1742 Dublin Version, Dr Erin Helyard, Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, guides us through the rich history, context, and evolution of Handel’s masterpiece.
The episode also features a special live performance by mezzo-soprano Ashlyn Tymms, accompanied by Erin on harpsichord.
Select Bibliography
Donald Burrows, Handel: Messiah (Cambridge Music Handbooks, 1991)
Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford, 1992)
Charles King, Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah (Random House, 2024)
Ruth Smith, Charles Jennens: The Man Behind Handel’s Messiah (Handel House Trust, 2012)
Ruth Smith, Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Pinchgut Opera's pre-opera podcast, hosted by Genevieve Lang, with very special guests Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director Erin Helyard, and Director Constantine Costi.
Witty, beautiful and psychologically fascinating, Orontea is set in a heightened contemporary world somewhere between Egypt and Las Vegas. The story centres around a love octagon, where decadence, pleasure and power fuel our colourful cast of grandiose and joyful characters as they pursue their personal passions above all else.
When it premiered at Innsbruck in February 1656, Orontea became one of the most successful operas of the entire century, deftly combining Cesti’s melodic inventiveness with Cicognini’s clever and comic libretto.
With Pinchgut’s imaginative staging and musical assurance, Orontea is guaranteed to amuse and delight our audiences of today, just as it did then.
Baroque Banter
Recorded live at the State Library of NSW, this episode of Baroque Banter takes you on a captivating journey into the origins and afterlife of Handel’s Messiah.
Ahead of Pinchgut Opera’s upcoming performance of the Original 1742 Dublin Version, Dr Erin Helyard, Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, guides us through the rich history, context, and evolution of Handel’s masterpiece.
The episode also features a special live performance by mezzo-soprano Ashlyn Tymms, accompanied by Erin on harpsichord.
Select Bibliography
Donald Burrows, Handel: Messiah (Cambridge Music Handbooks, 1991)
Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford, 1992)
Charles King, Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah (Random House, 2024)
Ruth Smith, Charles Jennens: The Man Behind Handel’s Messiah (Handel House Trust, 2012)
Ruth Smith, Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
