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Handel’s Messiah: London

Tuesday 5 December 2023

7pm

Venue: St Martin-in-the-Fields

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Overview

Performance Time: 3 hours minutes

Tickets available on the door

Access Information

St Martin in the Fields has a number of facilities available. Please visit the venue website for further information.

Arguably the most famous oratorio ever written and certainly Handel’s best known work, Messiah needs little introduction.

Composed in a staggering twenty-four days Messiah was first performed in Dublin in 1742 where it received a rapturous welcome. Not so the following year when it premiered in London to a distinctly hostile reception. It wasn’t until Messiah began to be presented in charity performances at the Foundling Hospital in London that the public started to embrace the work we now regard as Handel’s greatest composition.