16. – 25.5.2025 | Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen

Recap 2025

16. – 25.5.2025

Lorbeeren

The theme of the 2025 Handel Festival was “Laurels.” It was about awards, fame and honor, power and splendor, but also about the downsides associated with them.

2025

Feb 11th - May 25th

11

Tuesday

7:30 pm | February 11th, 2025

Drama! Tamerlano the Great

The Scourge of God

23

Sunday

11:00 am | February 23rd, 2025

Happy Birthday, Handel!

340th birthday celebrations

12

Wednesday

7:30 pm | March 12th, 2025

Drama! Tamerlano the Great

The Scourge of God

23

Wednesday

7:00 pm | April 23rd, 2025

Festival Preview

People of Power

27

Sunday

10:00 am | April 27th, 2025

Sing Along Service

Alon Sariel

3:00 pm | April 27th, 2025

Prelude

Handel vs. Scarlatti

30

Wednesday

7:00 pm | April 30th, 2025

Festival Preview

Special Concert Experiences

06

Tuesday

12:00 pm | May 6th, 2025

Audio-Walk

Tamerlano

07

Wednesday

7:00 pm | May 7th, 2025

Festival Preview

On the Road

08

Thursday

© Marco Buehl

10:00 am | May 8th, 2025

Rolling George

rolls across the region

© Marco Buehl

11:30 am | May 8th, 2025

Rolling George

rolls across the region

© Marco Buehl

2:00 pm | May 8th, 2025

Rolling George

rolls across the region

7:00 pm | May 8th, 2025

GT Forum

09

Friday

© Marco Buehl

11:30 am | May 9th, 2025

Rolling George

rolls across the region

© Marco Buehl

1:00 pm | May 9th, 2025

Rolling George

rolls across the region

© Marco Buehl

4:00 pm | May 9th, 2025

Rolling George

rolls across the region

10

Saturday

© Marco Buehl

10:00 am | May 10th, 2025

Rolling George

rolls 4 Kids in Göttingen

16

Friday

10:00 am | May 16th, 2025

Good morning, George!

3:00 pm | May 16th, 2025

Festival Lecture

Power and Glory on Stage

7:00 pm | May 16th, 2025

Solomon (HWV 67)

Oratorio

17

Saturday

10:00 am | May 17th, 2025

Symposium

Fascination with the Other

11:00 am | May 17th, 2025

Children's Day

3:00 pm | May 17th, 2025

Kinderfilm

Wenn du König wärst

6:00 pm | May 17th, 2025

Tamerlano (HWV 18)

Festival Opera | Premiere

ensemble freymut © Theresa Pewal

7:30 pm | May 17th, 2025

Les Nations

18

Sunday

hille perl © uwe arens nutzung immer mit autorennennung und nur nach absprache

11:00 am | May 18th, 2025

A Gambist’s Travels

With music and dance in the footsteps of E. C. Hesse

3:00 pm | May 18th, 2025

Tamerlano (HWV 18)

Festival Opera

3:00 pm | May 18th, 2025

Kinderfilm

Wenn du König wärst

5:00 pm | May 18th, 2025

Byrd and Birds

8:30 pm | May 18th, 2025

In Ottoboni’s circle

Tra Noi

19

Monday

10:00 am | May 19th, 2025

göttingen händel competition

Preliminary round

10:00 am | May 19th, 2025

Good morning, George!

12:30 pm | May 19th, 2025

Lunch Concert

Scenic Reading "Tamerlano"

7:00 pm | May 19th, 2025

Congrats, Nic McGegan!

20

Tuesday

10:00 am | May 20th, 2025

göttingen händel competition

Final round

10:00 am | May 20th, 2025

Good morning, George!

12:30 pm | May 20th, 2025

Lunch Concert

Régence sonore

Andrea Strube © Frank Stefan Kimmel

6:00 pm | May 20th, 2025

Readings, Wine & Music

Daniel Lanthier, Marco Baronchelli

6:00 pm | May 20th, 2025

Tamerlano (HWV 18)

Festival Opera

© Karpati Zarewicz

8:30 pm | May 20th, 2025

Viennese Metamorphosis

Backstage with Régence sonore

21

Wednesday

10:00 am | May 21st, 2025

Good morning, George!

12:30 pm | May 21st, 2025

Lunch Concert

Daniel Lanthier & Marco Baronchelli

12:30 pm | May 21st, 2025

Lunch Concert

Audience Prize 2025

5:00 pm | May 21st, 2025

Kinderuni

Wie bringt man das Wort zum Klingen? Eine Spurensuche in Georg Friedrich Händels Oper Tamerlano

Andrea Strube

6:00 pm | May 21st, 2025

Readings, Wine & Music

7:00 pm | May 21st, 2025

Prizewinners’ Concert

“Music and Space”

7:30 pm | May 21st, 2025

By Moonlight on the Green

The Curious Bards

22

Thursday

10:00 am | May 22nd, 2025

Good morning, George!

5:00 pm | May 22nd, 2025

Prizewinners’ Concert

Prize of the Göttinger Händel-Gesellschaft e. V.

7:30 pm | May 22nd, 2025

Gala Concert

Ann Hallenberg

23

Friday

10:00 am | May 23rd, 2025

Good morning, George!

12:30 pm | May 23rd, 2025

Lunch Concert

George Petrou

Capella de la Torre

7:30 pm | May 23rd, 2025

Handel's Playlist

Sounds that inspire

7:45 pm | May 23rd, 2025

Proms

24

Saturday

Stefan Kordes

12:00 pm | May 24th, 2025

Kontrapunkt

Power and glory in four centuries of organ music

Capella de la Torre

3:00 pm | May 24th, 2025

Enchanted Island

Children’s concert with Capella de la Torre

3:00 pm | May 24th, 2025

Guided City Tour

Power and Glory: Imbalances of Power in Göttingen's Urban History

5:00 pm | May 24th, 2025

Tamerlano (HWV 18)

Festival Opera

7:30 pm | May 24th, 2025

Jesu, meine Freude

Anacronía

Gero Körner

9:00 pm | May 24th, 2025

Händel jazzt!

George overboard!

25

Sunday

5:00 am | May 25th, 2025

Sunrise

Gentle Dialogue

Mayumi Hirasaki

11:00 am | May 25th, 2025

Viva il caro Sassone!

Handel and the Italian virtuosos of his time

Sarrasine Familienfassung

12:00 pm | May 25th, 2025

Family version

of the opera Tamerlano

5:00 pm | May 25th, 2025

Arias without Words

5:00 pm | May 25th, 2025

Tamerlano (HWV 18)

Festival Opera