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.
Cast
- Jane Seymour as Narrator
- Alan Mitchell as George Frederic Handel
- Julianna Pirillo as Susannah Cibber
- Simon Hedger as Charles Jennens
- Alexander Fuchs as Young Handel
- Kirby Bolick as Robert Jennens