Handel's Messiah

Name: Handel's Messiah
Director: Lee Groberg
Genre: Documentary, History, Music, TV Movie
Released: 2014-11-20
Duration: 79 min
Cast: Jane Seymour, Alan Mitchell, Julianna Pirillo, Simon Hedger, Alexander Fuchs

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2014 · 79 min · NR · Documentary · History · Music · TV Movie

Overview

Discovered at age nine and a celebrated composer by age eighteen, George Frideric Handel experienced a meteoric rise to success, with forty-two operas performed on three continents in his lifetime. As enduring as Handel's operatic work is, the prodigious German genius is best known for his oratorio Messiah. Now you can learn in poignant detail how Handel's magnum opus came to be.

Directed by Lee Groberg

Cast

Jane Seymour — Narrator
Alan Mitchell — George Frederic Handel
Julianna Pirillo — Susannah Cibber
Simon Hedger — Charles Jennens
Alexander Fuchs — Young Handel