PROGRAM

* Georg Friedrich Händel Israel in Egypt Oratorio for Soli, Doublechoir & Orchestra

Music/Vocal Since it was founded in 1992, Domkantorei St. Pölten has produced extremely successful renditions of early baroque church music and contemporary choral works. Now this specialist ensemble brings a masterpiece to the Festspielhaus: Georg Friedrich Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt, whose fundamental message remains particularly relevant today for the Cathedral’s Music Director Otto Kargl: “Every person who is persecuted and oppressed, and whose life has been deprived of human dignity, has a claim to a promised land. That is the great message of this wonderful work.” 

Domkantorei St. Pölten, cappella nova graz, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, N.N. soloists