Last summer, Alastair Stout and Grace Church’s Rutland Area Chorus were on tour when they came about as close to Handel’s ... for his double bass because there’s one movement in “Messiah,” one of the ...

With opera companies eager ... of “Total eclipse” from Handel’s “Samson,” depicting the blinded Samson plunged into darkness, was followed by bass-baritone Davóne Tines, soprano Latonia ...