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Handel's Messiah

Handel's Messiah

Date

December 3 - 4, 2022

Time

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Hearing Handel’s masterpiece live is an experience unlike any other

One of the greatest choral works of all time, the Messiah is uplifting, inspiring, and perfect for the holiday season. Mercury’s period instrument performance of the complete Messiah is not to be missed.  A cadre of elite vocalists joins our premiere vocal ensemble, The Mercury Singers.

This concert is made possible in part by the Houston Endowment, the Brown Foundation, the Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts, the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance, and by supporters like you.

Program

 

George Frideric Handel

Messiah, HWV 56

Featured  ARTISTS

Antoine Plante, Conductor 

Elena Villalón, Soprano
Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-Soprano
Jack Swanson, Tenor
Michael Sumuel, Bass-Baritone

Mercury Singers with Betsy Cook Weber, Director

RUNNING TIME

2 hr 30 min, including intermission

 
 

Ensemble

Ensemble

VIOLIN I

Jonathan Godfrey, Concertmaster
Ervin Luka Sešek
Kana Kimura
Maria Lin

VIOLIN II

Manami Mizumoto, Principal Second Violin
Hannah Watson
Andrés González
Kako Miura*

VIOLA

Kathleen Carrington, Principal
Amber Archibald
Matthew Carrington

CELLO

Courtenay Vandiver Pereira, Principal
Kristiana Ignatjeva

BASS

Deborah Dunham, Principal

Oboe

Pablo O'Connell*, Principal
Pablo Moreno

Bassoon

Nate Helgeson, Principal

Trumpet

Luke Balslov, Principal
Amanda Pepping

Timpani

Jesús Pacheco

Harpsichord/Organ

Mario Aschauer

Rehearsal Pianist

Andreea Muţ

Mercury Singers under the direction of Dr. Betsy Cook Weber

Justine Alexander
Cody Arthur
Stephen Ash
Jesús Bravo
Jennifer Breneman
Rachael Castillo
Rebecca Castillo
Nicole Colby
Evan Cooper
Mark Edenfield
Brianna Fernandez
John Gallagher
Monica Hernandez
Sean Jackson
Briana Kerner
Michael Kessler
Stephanie Kopesky
Eric Laine
Matthew Reynolds
Grace Roman
Chloe Schaaf Zimmerman
Michael Skarke
Phillip Velarde
Joel Williams