New Horizones: the 2022 Festival

For the very first time, we aimed to bring Handel’s music to the entire city and with events such as Good morning George!, the Lunch Concerts and Café George, performed it in unexpected locations. We were also endowing our göttinger händel competition with a new special prize for innovative concert programs tailored to new concert venues in the region. As a member of the European funding program EEEmerging+, we gazed into the future as we presented the ensembles in Göttingen and Southern Lower Saxony that have been accepted into the funding program.

Of course, our luggage included everything that has always characterized the Göttingen International Handel Festival and served as the basis for our programming: high-caliber concerts, outstanding artists such as Julia Lezhneva, Václav Luks and the NDR Vocal Ensemble, academics and professionals in dialogue, dramatic works and small-scale formats and, above all: George Frideric Handel and his music. 100 years following the premiere of Giulio Cesare at the Göttingen Handel Festival, the opera was presented in a co-production with the Nederlandse Reisopera, directed and conducted by George Petrou.