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Anthony Hopkins will play Handel, in a new biopic about the composer’s ‘Messiah’
3 May ,
A new composer biopic is coming to our screens, with two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins set to play the great 18th-century composer George Frideric Handel in ‘The King of Covent Garden’.
A new composer biopic is on the way, and this time its subject is one of the greats of Baroque music.
George Frideric Handel, born in Halle (now modern day Germany) and later a naturalised Brit, was one of the most successful musical figures of the 18th century.
In a newly announced film, The King of Covent Garden, acclaimed actor Sir Anthony Hopkins will play the great composer, as he wrote his epic choral work Messiah in just 24 days during the summer of
Hopkins himself has a close relationship with classical music, having started to play piano aged six before studying at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
He starred as the piano-playing Pope Benedict XVI in the film Th