Kim Brandstrup
Handel's Messiah
Premiere
November 27, 2009 by English National Opera at The London Coliseum
(followed by nine further performances)
Creative Team
Producer
English National Opera
Music
George Frederic Handel
Director
Deborah Warner
Choreography
Kim Brandstrup
Design
Tom Pye
Lighting
Jean Kalman
Video design
Leo Warner
Costumes
Moritz Junge
Conductor
Laurence Cummings
Handel's Messiah
English National Opera
The London Coliseum, 27 November 2009
Review Extracts
The Production
“.. choreographed in restrained style by Kim Brandstrup”
- Rupert Christiansen, The Daily Telegraph
Information about the production
Kim Brandstrup reprised his fruitful creative association with director Deborah Warner to choreograph ENO’s new staging of Handel’s Messiah, marking the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death.
The two first worked together in 2007 on Britten’s Death in Venice, also for ENO.
Handel’s work remains one of the most popular choral pieces in the repertoire. Through staged action and dance Warner and Brandstrup explored the profundities and hidden meanings of the work, which touches on the deep implications of good and evil, the past and the future, and the belief in the final victory over sin, death and decay.