Résumé: In a Chester pub, a ragtag group of singers is the unlikely first company to perform Handel’s Messiah to a crowd of unappreciative drinkers. So begins the journey of the world’s most popular choral work – a journey full of seemingly insurmountable challenges facing the composer at every turn.
Along the way he encounters the actress Susannah Cibber, the tricky librettist Charles Jennens and the mysterious Crazy Crow in his determined efforts to stage the concert that will change the way the world listens to music forever.