Handel's "Messiah" during Challenging Times

Remember to get your season ticket to assure seating for this year's 80th Cedar City performance of Handel's Messiah.  Seating will be limited due to health restrictions and masks are required. Season ticket holders will be assured space. Other tickets will be released starting Nov. 27. Season ticket link

Thanks to the State Bank of Southern Utah and the Leavitt Group for making this production possible. We hope to provide a streaming option for those who are unable to attend live performances. 

The online performance will be available from Saturday, Dec. 19th at 10:00 a.m. to January 1st at 5:00 pm. The link will be at  myosu.org

Mystery of Godliness is the theme of this year's production. 
Poster design by Rollan Fell.

This year's performance will have a reduced choir and orchestra with a Baroque interpretation of this great masterpiece. The selections and soloists are noted below with the chorus noted in all capitals. Jackie Riddle Jackson is preparing the choir with Xun Sun as director.

Adjustments may be made depending on health restrictions, but the plan is to have a live audience for both evenings and then to provide a streaming option to share the music for the Christmas season.

#1 Overture, orchestra
#2 Comfort Ye My People ~ Derek Holt
#3 Every Valley ~ Derek Holt
#4 AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD
#5 Thus Saith the Lord ~ Joseph Marrow
#6 But Who May Abide ~ Alex Byers
#8 Behold! A Virgin Shall Conceive ~ Taliah Byers
#9 O THOU THAT TELLEST ~ Taliah Byers
#12 FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN
#13 Pastoral Symphony
#14 There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field/And Lo the Angel of the Lord ~ Erica Griffin
#15 And the Angel Said Unto Them ~ Erica Griffin
#16 And Suddenly, There was with the Angel ~ Erica Griffin
#17 GLORY TO GOD
#18 Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion! ~ Dee Holt
#19 Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind be Open’d ~ Jan Pressgrove
#20 He Shall Feed His Flock ~ Jan Pressgrove
Come Unto Him ~ Brandi Hall
#22 BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD
#24 SURELY, HE HATH BOURNE OUR GRIEFS
#38 How Beautiful are the Feet of Them ~ Natalie Davila
#40 Why Do the Nations so Furiously Roar Together ~ Alex Byers
#44 HALLELUJAH!
#45 I Know That My Redeemer Liveth ~ Elise Fulton
#47 Behold, I Tell You A Mystery ~ Curtis Chamberlain
#48 The Trumpet Shall Sound
~ BARITONE: Curtis Chamberlain
~ TRUMPET: TBD
#49 Then Shall be Brought to Pass ~ Brooke Alldredge
#50 O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING
ALTO: Brooke Alldredge
TENOR: Jacob Moss
#52 If God Be For Us ~ Terri Metcalf-Peterson
#53 WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN