| Soprano | Sherezade Panthaki |
| Soprano | Bonnie McNaughton |
| Alto | Kristen Dubenion-Smith |
| Tenor | Aaron Sheehan |
| Bass-Baritone | David Newman |
Ignoti Dei Orchestra Conducted by Timothy Nelson
Stage Direction: Timothy Nelson
Music Direction: Timothy Nelson + Adam Pearl
Lighting & Production Design: Kel Millionie
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AOT completes its 2007 season with America’s first staged Messiah. What is unquestionably Handel’s masterpiece comes to life upon the stage in a production capturing the essence of the work. The combined forces of AOT, Ignoti Dei Orchestra, and a vibrant and talented young cast come together to explore the human side of Handel’s iconic score. Performed by five soloists, choir, and in its original 1742 orchestration for strings and trumpet, AOT peers through Messiah to look at the questions of being human at the beginning of the new millennium.
The score is electrifying, the libretto a masterpiece of rhetoric construction, and together they are considered by many to be divine. The vibrancy and power of this work exist in its inherent drama. In the spirit of that drama the creative team of AOT meets Handel’s Messiah on its own terms, and the staged production is the result of an organic process of allowing the work to speak for itself. Musical sensitivity, dramatic innovation, artistic precision – the cornerstones of AOT are realized in one of the great pillars of western culture.