Festival calendar 2020
Main programme
The 2020 Festival has been postponed. The originally planned programme can be found here in the overview.
Past events
Sunday, 23 Februar
Händel_Göttingen_1920
Exhibition opening
Rodelinde_1920
Come with us on a journey to the beginnings of the Handel Festival: almost 100 years after the...
Wednesday, 4 March
Händel-Talk I
In keeping with tradition, the Festival's Managing Director, Tobias Wolff, will be inviting...
Sunday, 08 March
festival operas at the cinema
Admeto (HWV 22) · Since 2009, the Göttingen International Handel Festival has been...
Friday, 13 March
CANCELLED: Händel goes Impro: Giulio Cesare
What is it about Cornelia that Curio finds so irresistible? Why does Parnassus open at the very...
Sunday, 29 March
Cancelled | Festival operas at the cinema
Imeneo (HWV 41) · Since 2009, the Göttingen International Handel Festival has been...
Sunday, 12 April
Cancelled | Festival operas at the cinema
Siroe (HWV 24) · Since 2009, the Göttingen International Handel Festival has been...
Wednesday, 29 April
Cancelled | Händel-Talk II
In keeping with tradition, the Festival's Managing Director, Tobias Wolff, will be inviting...
Sunday, 10 May
Cancelled | Festival operas at the cinema
Agrippina (HWV 6) · Since 2009, the Göttingen International Handel Festival has been...
Tuesday, 19 May
Cancelled | göttingen händel competition 2020
Competition day 1 · On the first day of the Festival, the stage is set for young,...
Wednesday, 20 May
Cancelled | göttingen händel competition 2020
Competition day 2 · On the first day of the Festival, the stage is set for young,...
Cancelled | Festival opening
With the announcement of 2020 winners
Cancelled | Rodelinda (HWV 19) – Premiere
It was she who started it all in 1920: Rodelinda, the sensitive, loving wife who remains faithful...
Thursday, 21 May
Cancelled | Prizewinners’ Concert
Winners of the göttingen händel competition 2020 · Following two successful...
Cancelled | Alessandro (HWV 21)
Written for the stars · Alexander the Great was an extremely popular choice of main...
Cancelled | Händel goes Pop: Radamisto
In 2018 our format ‘Handel goes Pop’ celebrated its premiere. For our anniversary...
Friday, 22 May
Cancelled | Festival Lecture
“Handel and us”? Continuity and discontinuity of the Göttingen Handel...
Cancelled | Rodelinda (HWV 19)
It was she who started it all in 1920: Rodelinda, the sensitive, loving wife who remains faithful...
Cancelled | Ottone (HWV 15)
Wedding with obstacles · The plot of Handel’s opera Ottone concerns no less than the...
Cancelled | Spirto amato
Metamorphoses of Handel’s Poro · The story goes that all of London was humming the...
Saturday, 23 May
Cancelled | Symposium: Opera as a business
Handel’s opera aesthetics and the premises of the Enlightenment · Since the...
Cancelled | Public Viewing
Rodelinda for all! · Year on year, the Festival opera ‘open doors occasion’ is...
Cancelled | Rodelinda (HWV 19)
It was she who started it all in 1920: Rodelinda, the sensitive, loving wife who remains faithful...
Cancelled | Händel jazzt! Sosarme
The Göttingen audience has known and loved Anna Dennis since her Festival debut in 2013. She...
Sunday, 24 May
Cancelled | Stiftungskonzert
Händel, Almira und die Hamburger Gänsemarkt-Oper · Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Marx, renowned...
Cancelled | Ariodante (HWV 33)
In a new light · Compelling music and a gripping plot are the main qualities of...
Monday, 25 May
Cancelled | Reading, wine and music
A thread about Ariadne · Sometimes life hangs by a thread. In the case of Theseus,...
Cancelled | Händel goes Tango: Il pastor fido
Could there be a more fitting setting for a pastoral opera than the sheep barn of the historic...
Tuesday, 26 May
Cancelled | Reading, wine and music
A thread about Ariadne · Sometimes life hangs by a thread. In the case of Theseus,...
Cancelled | Rodelinda (HWV 19)
It was she who started it all in 1920: Rodelinda, the sensitive, loving wife who remains faithful...
Cancelled | Premiere EZIO: Game of Rome
HipHOpera nach HWV 29 · EZIO: Game of Rome is one of the biggest projects in the...
Wednesday, 27 May
Cancelled | EZIO: Game of Rome
HipHOpera nach HWV 29 | School performance · EZIO: Game of Rome is one of the biggest...
Cancelled | EEEmerging+: Cembaless
Il Floridante or the secret heroine? · Betrayal, maliciousness and love – George...
Cancelled | EZIO: Game of Rome
HipHOpera nach HWV 29 · EZIO: Game of Rome is one of the biggest projects in the...
Thursday, 28 May
Cancelled | Publio Cornelio Scipione (HWV 20)
The plot of this opera, which Handel composed in 1726 for the King’s Theatre in London,...
Friday, 29 May
Cancelled | Xerxes (HWV 40)
In the shade of the plane tree · On 15 April 1738 Handel’s Xerxes was premiered at...
Cancelled | Händel goes Tinder
“Handel goes Tinder is a multimedia opera that is best described as ‘Sex...
Saturday, 30 May
Cancelled | Rinaldo (HWV 7)
Cara sposa · In 1711, the fantastic story about the crusader Rinaldo in Armida’s...
Cancelled | Laurence Cummings in Concert
Muzio Scevola · It was a wholly new experience for London in the year 1721 when as many as...
Sunday, 31 May
Cancelled | EEEmerging+: Palisander
Arrangement of the opera Partenope (HWV 27) · Handel sets the romantic drama of intrigue...
Cancelled | Rodelinda (HWV 19)
It was she who started it all in 1920: Rodelinda, the sensitive, loving wife who remains faithful...
Cancelled | Giustino (HWV 37)
Opera by a thread · In Handel’s opera Giustino, the title hero is a simple peasant...
Monday, 1 June
Cancelled | Les plaisirs de la danse: Florindo/Daphne
Handel wrote his first four operas during his time in Hamburg. Only the score of the first one,...
Cancelled | Rodelinda (HWV 19)
It was she who started it all in 1920: Rodelinda, the sensitive, loving wife who remains faithful...
