We need to celebrate Christmas.......

Especially this year, we just couldn't let December pass without celebrating Christmas with you and there is no more perfect way than with arguably the most loved oratorio, Handel's Messiah.

We have gathered the best of St Paul's Opera soloists for a chamber performance, just as was first presented in Dublin at the premier in 1742. Our soloists are Patricia Ninian, Davidona Pittock, Fiona Hymns, Louisa Tee, Alexandra Dinwiddie, Jenny Samuel, Natalie Davies, Daniel Kringer, Robin Whitehouse, Peder Holtermann, Jack Lawrence-Jones, Owain Evans, Aleksi Koponen and Edwin Kaye. Our singers will be accompanied by Michael Hodges (organ), James Widden (violin) and Alison Holford (cello). SPO musical director Panaretos Kyriatzidis will conduct the concert.


What to expect
The performance will be an abridged version, aimed to give you some of the most loved numbers of the oratorio, but keeping the total performance to about an hour and a half. There will be no interval, however there will be a short break at the end of Part Two to stand for a couple of minutes.