The oratorios represent one of the apices of Händel’sprofessional career and they even saved thecomposer when he was facing repeated crises of hisoperatic enterprise. These...

The oratorios represent one of the apices of Händel’s professional career and they even saved the composer when he was facing repeated crises of his operatic enterprise. These works of his have remained in the European repertoire and even if Händel hadn’t written anything else, his Messiah alone would have earned him immortality.