An updated “Messiah for the Millennium” is a bust. “…the dreadful Roger Daltrey” butchered everything. “Chaka Khan was all over the place. Gladys Knight was just not equipped to sing this music. All this was peppered with the offensively ambiguous double-speak of narrator Aidan Quinn’s pointless role. Was he scorning or supporting Handel’s Messiah story? Who could tell?” – Irish Times