Handel | Messiah
December 21, 2025, 5PM
Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church
6601 Bradley Blvd.
Bethesda, MD
This performance will also be performed on Saturday, December 20th at National City Christian Church in DC. For information about that performance, please click here.
Due to its ubiquity, Handel’s Messiah is a piece that we all think we know. And yet, at each return, the work still surprises us through the overwhelming power and beauty of its music and the Christmas story. The Thirteen returns to Handel’s masterpiece this year as we establish a new holiday tradition for the region.
The Thirteen performs all three parts of Messiah—including the iconic “Hallelujah Chorus”— telling the greatest story ever told in song. Featuring the region’s only all-professional Messiah, our orchestra of the nation’s finest period instrumentalists, and our “dazzling” choir, whose members—center-stage soloists all—will sing Messiah’s iconic solos and duets in a kaleidoscope “of distinctive approaches to these famous arias” (Washington Classical Review).
This program is made possible by a generous gift from Robert & Lynn Downing and Clint & Missy Kelly. The musicians of our orchestra are supported, in part, by a gift to The Thirteen’s Building for Tomorrow fund by Sue Berryman.
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
Premium Orchestra (first third of nave): $95
Preferred Orchestra (second third of nave): $80
Rear Orchestra: $60
Rear Balcony (Maestro’s Favorite): $60
West Side Transept (Side view): $45
East Side Transept (Obstructed View): $25
Choir Loft (Conductor View - behind ensemble): $30
Student Tickets are $15 and are West Side Transept Tickets.
Non-resident virtual only ticket: $40
Tickets are $10 more if purchased at the door.
Kids ages 5-17 come free with the purchase of a ticket for a caregiver. Kids come free tickets are limited to Rear Orchestra, Rear Balcony, Transept, and Choir Loft tickets.
All in-person tickets include access to the virtual performance On Demand.
Pre-Concert Talk with Charles King
(Included with concert ticket)
The performance will be preceded by a concert talk with Charles King, author of Every Valley - The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah. Learn more about Mr. King’s book here. The talk will begin one hour before curtain time, 4pm.