Handel Festival 2013 from june 6 to june 16

The Handel Festival Halle – concerts at authentic venues

Together with the city of Leipzig just 38 kilometres away, Halle, the city of Handel, forms the centre of Central Germany. With 230,000 inhabitants, Halle is the largest city and cultural metropolis of Saxony-Anhalt. From human prehistory to the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the Baroque period, the Enlightenment, the rapid industrial expansion of the Gründerzeit in the late nineteenth century right through to classical modernity, in Halle you’ll find evidence of any number of cultural eras.