Coliseu Porto hosts "The Messiah" of Georg Friedrich Händel

This festive season, Coliseu Porto presents a Christmas concert, featuring one of the most significant pieces of Händel, "The Messiah", starting at 9.30 pm and conducted by the Argentinian maestro Leonardo García Alarcón.

Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra and the Lisboa Cantat Choir will be in charge of delivering a stunning repertoire, the perfect treat for a magical evening at Coliseu Porto.

This is the second concert in a cycle of three concerts of music orchestra, the result of an artistic and cultural partnership between Coliseu Porto and the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra.

The famous musical oratorio was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and it was premiered in London almost a year later. Although The Messiah's structure resembles that of opera, it is not in dramatic form.

This oratorio has become one of the best-known and most recurrently performed choral works in Western music.

Enjoy a little warmth during this cold December days at Coliseu Porto with an array of talented vocalists and musicians with this magical Christmas concert.

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