Watch out George Frideric Handel – The Pennsylvania Ballet gets ready to present Messiah in March
Feb 8th, 2012 | By Steven Weisz | Category: Archived Articles
Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in Robert Weiss’ Messiah. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev.
Pennsylvania Ballet presents choreographer Robert Weiss’s Messiah, set to the universally popular score by George Frideric Handel and featuring The Philadelphia Singers, March 8-17, 2012 at the Academy of Music.
“With Messiah, our audience receives an incredibly robust performance experience,” Artistic Director Roy Kaiser says. “A dramatic story told through sublime dancing, enhanced by Handel’s score and a live chorus. It’s a beautiful work.”
Messiah carries a special connection to Pennsylvania Ballet as its choreographer is the Company’s former Artistic Director. In this ballet, Weiss employs more than 50 individual scenes to convey an emotional spectrum of joy, suffering, passion, and redemption. Messiah opens with a full choir onstage in a skeletal abstraction of a church. With sun streaming through the bare windows, dancers take the stage in a vivid, moving interpretation of this epic libretto, featuring stunning sets and costumes. The Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra is accompanied by The Philadelphia Singers. Soloists include Suzanne Ramo, Soprano; Jamie Van Eyck, Mezzo Soprano; Steve Sanders, Tenor; and Levi Hernandez, Bass.
Messiah performances at the Academy of Music:
- Thursday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, March 10 at 2 p.m.
- Sunday, March 11 at 2 p.m.
- Saturday, March 17 at 2 p.m.
- Saturday, March 17 at 8 p.m
Tickets to Messiah are on sale now, with prices ranging from $20 to $140. Tickets are available online at paballet.org, by phone at 215.893.1999, and in person at the Kimmel Center Box Office..
