Haydn's Creation

Join the Royal Free Music Society Choir and the Zemel Choir, with the Hampstead Sinfonietta, for a performance of Haydn’s much-loved oratorio, The Creation. This dramatic work by one of the Eighteenth Century’s pre-eminent musicians tells the story of the creation of the world as depicted in the Book of Genesis - chaos gives way to order, darkness gives way to light and, finally, Adam and Eve are created.

With its rousing choruses and sparkling melodies, Franz Joseph Haydn’s oratorio was an instant hit at its first performance in Vienna in 1798. It was soon being performed across Europe in both the German and the English versions.

With soloists Maud Millar, Ed Hastings and Benjamin Seifert, and under the baton of conductor, Benjamin Wolf, the choirs will perform the masterpiece in English.