A Carnival Messiah Celebration

On Saturday 22nd September, the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission, headed by Her Excellency Glenda Morean Phillip, and members of the T&T Community in the United Kingdom, celebrated Trinidad and Tobago’s Republic Day in grand style.

Her Excellency Glenda Morean Phillip, and members of the T&T Community in the United Kingdom, celebrated Trinidad and Tobago’s Republic Day in grand style.

The High Commissioner, accompanied by members of her staff, along with Trinidad and Tobago nationals, spent a day in Yorkshire where they were treated to a special performance of Carnival Messiah, Geraldine Connor’s radical reinvention of Handel’s Messiah, and by all reports, a fantastic day was had.
           
“Oh it was a great day,” said High Commissioner Morean Phillip, “and Carnival Messiah is an excellent production.  To see descendants of slaves perform on a former slave plantation to an audience that was visibly in awe of the spectacle being witnessed, to me shows that things have come full circle.” And the High Commissioner was not the only person bowled over by the Geraldine Connor production- “You know that a production has been really exciting when you get up to join in the standing ovation and your knees are wobbly."
Daily Telegraph