06/11/2025
Matthew Quirk Director
“If you haven’t experienced a staged performance of The Messiah before, we can promise you something very unusual and special.
The church as a setting is key. The twelve professional singers play characters from everyday life who find themselves in this sacred place.
They do not know each other and they have their own reasons for being there but each is in search of something — consolation, affirmation, forgiveness, direction.
Some of them carry the concept of a Messiah in their hearts, some are not religious at all.
As they sing through this traditional work, they engage with each other and themselves, ultimately experiencing the transformation from need and despair to understanding and hope.
This production was created in the UK in 2011 by the Merry Opera Company. It has been brought back by request almost every year since.
Audiences report that it gives Handel’s Messiah ‘new meaning’, ‘new invigoration’. “
Please come and be inspired.
