Messiah
Photo Credit
Principal Dancers Riolama Lorenzo and Zachary Hench in Christopher Wheeldon's Swan Lake. Photo: Paul Kolnik.
Messiah

Robert Weiss // Music by George Frideric Handel

Featuring The Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra and The Philadelphia Singers featuring soloists Suzanne Ramo (Soprano), Jamie Van Eyck (Mezzo), Steve Sanders (Tenor), and Levi Hernandez (Bass).

Inspirational. Moving. Pure. With Messiah, choreographer Robert Weiss creates an enthralling, epic ballet that translates Handel's world-famous libretto to the stage. The former Artistic Director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Weiss employs more than 50 individual scenes to convey an emotional spectrum of joy, suffering, passion, and redemption.

Messiah opens with a full choir on stage in a skeletal abstraction of a church. With sun streaming through the bare windows, dancers take the stage in a vivid, dramatic interpretation of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.



Academy of Music

Performance Dates

Thursday, March 8, 7:30pm

Friday, March 9, 7:30pm

Saturday, March 10, 2pm

Sunday, March 11, 2pm

Saturday, March 17, 2pm, 8pm


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For tickets & info, please call 215-893-1999.

Running time is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission and one 5-minute pause.

Click here to see casting for Messiah.