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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
Rehearsal last night reminded me how much I love The Messiah (yeah, not quite a play/opera/musical...whatever). The director would call out a chorus number to rehearse and I would turn to the person next to me and say "Yay! My favorite!"...and that process would repeat all night. I'm such a geek.
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Oh AlphaFrog. If it were not you, I wouldn't do this, but it is you and you
are such a geek, so . . . .
1) No, it's not quite a play/opera/musical. It's an oratorio, which is essentially a concert opera (story but no staging, no sets, no costumes, no character interaction), usually on on a sacred subject (though sometimes drawn from mythology).
2) The name of the oratorio is
Messiah, not
The Messiah.
