GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Calvin Oratorio Society will present Haydn's "The Seasons" at Calvin College for the very first time. Music director Joel Navarro will lead the soloists, the Calvin Oratorio Society ...

The last concert composer Franz Joseph Haydn attended before his death took place in Vienna on March 27, 1808. The program consisted of a single work, Haydn’s own oratorio, “The Creation,” an ...

Haydn's famous oratorio propounds the legend of God's creation of the world in all its innocence and mystery, from chaos to its crowning achievement, the first man and woman, conveying its images in ...

Of all the immortal composers, Haydn had the best sense of humor. It was on abundant display Friday night when the Florida Orchestra, Master Chorale and a trio of vocal soloists gave a ravishing ...

We don’t hear much of Franz Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons these days. That’s a shame because while this musical collage of spring festivals, summer storms, autumnal hunts and cold, gloomy winter ...

Evergreen of Evergreens, Oratorio of Oratorios, forever and ever! Would Handel’s “Messiah” be as ubiquitous if the composer had, in summer 1741, been handed a different biblical life to set to music, ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Bach's Christmas Oratorio was ...

George Friedrich Handel’s Messiah (1742) is the Muhammad Ali of oratorios: It dominates the category to the point of overshadowing all others. Handel (1685-1759) himself wrote many other outstanding ...

Composer Joseph Haydn's music is, in its own way, as descriptive of the moment of creation as the words of physicists could ever be THERE'S no mistaking the bang in the opening recitative chorus of ...

The Handel and Haydn Society will perform Handel’s Messiah November 28–30, 2025, at Symphony Hall in Boston, marking its ...