For the Dublin premiere of Messiah in 1742, there were approximately 30 cathedral-trained singers and an orchestra of around the same size. Secondly, when he first composed the oratorio in 1741, he was heavily in debt and had no idea what singers or musicians would be available to him. This begs the question, What would George Frideric Handel have thought about this huge chorus with 360+ singers, an 80+ piece orchestra, and over 2,000 additional online singers? First of all, he probably never would have imagined the possibility of a production of this size for Messiah.
The world is embracing the amazing collaboration between The Tabernacle Choir and singers around the globe. In its first week, the world’s largest virtual “Hallelujah” chorus was viewed over 300,000 times on YouTube and over twice that on Facebook.
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