Program

Following on from the “Guests of the Bachs’” guided walking tour of the city of Leipzig in period costume, there will be a tour of St. Thomas’ Church in Leipzig, the new Bach Museum and an organ recital in the Marktkirche, Halle, with Irénée Peyrot, and a visit to the Wilhelm Friedemann Bach House, also in Halle.

A two-hour walking tour in which you’ll discover fascinating facts about the Handel Quarter.

The “frenzied Orlando” as a recurring theme in literature and music down the centuries.
A literary concert by and featuring Uwe Schweikert

Musical director: Bernhard Forck
Directed by: Nicola Hümpel
Set designer: Oliver Proske
Nico and the Navigators
Handel Festival Orchestra Halle
In Italian with German supertitles
Co-produced by the Handel Festival Halle and Halle Opera

“Ladies, Knights, Weapons and Love. Ariosto’s Orlando furioso on the Opera Stage”
Prof. Albert Gier, Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg

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Claudio Monteverdi: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Luigi Rossi: Il Palazzo incantato (extracts)
Musical director and theorbist: Christina Pluhar
Raquel Andueza (soprano), Luciana Mancini (mezzo soprano), Cyril Auvity (tenor), Filvio Bettini (baritone)
Dancers: Bruna Gondoni, Marco Bendoni, Vincenzo Capezzuto
L'Arpeggiata
In collaboration with the Goethe Theatre Bad Lauchstädt

Katja Stuber  (soprano), Kai Wessel (alto)
Thomas Michael Allen (tenor), Emiliano Barragán Géant (baritone)
Tölzer Knabenchor
l’arte del mondo
Musical director: Werner Ehrhardt
Performance based on the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (Halle Handel Edition)

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Claudio Monteverdi: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Luigi Rossi: Il Palazzo incantato (extracts)
Musical director and theorbist: Christina Pluhar
Raquel Andueza (soprano), Luciana Mancini (mezzo soprano), Cyril Auvity (tenor), Filvio Bettini (baritone)
Dancers: Bruna Gondoni, Marco Bendoni, Vincenzo Capezzuto
L'Arpeggiata
In collaboration with the Goethe Theatre Bad Lauchstädt

Musical director: Bernhard Forck
Directed by: Nicola Hümpel
Set designer: Oliver Proske
Nico and the Navigators
Handel Festival Orchestra Halle
In Italian with German supertitles
Co-produced by the Handel Festival Halle and Halle Opera

“Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) and the Protestant church cantata after 1750”
An event organised by the Permanent Conference of Central German Baroque Music in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, in collaboration with the Institute of Music, Musicology Department, of the Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, the Institute of Musicology of Universität Leipzig, Stiftung Händel Haus, the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft  and the Bach-Archiv Leipzig.

Jean-Féry Rebel Les Éléments and Antonio Vivaldi Le quattro stagioni
Director, choreography: Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola
Musical director: Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumer
Solo violin and dance: Midori Seiler
Dance: Gabriel Galindez Cruz
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
In collaboration with the Dresden Music Festival

“Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) and the Protestant church cantata after 1750”
An event organised by the Permanent Conference of Central German Baroque Music in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, in collaboration with the Institute of Music, Musicology Department, of the Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, the Institute of Musicology of Universität Leipzig, Stiftung Händel Haus, the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft  and the Bach-Archiv Leipzig.

Musical direction: Christopher Moulds
Production: Vincent Boussard
Staging: Vincent Lemaire
Costumes: Stéphanie Zani
 
Floridante: Mariselle Martinez
Elmira: Virpi Räisänen
Rossane: Sonya Yoncheva
Timante: Elin Rombo
Handel Festival Orchestra Halle

A festival production by Halle Opera and the Handel Festival Halle 2009

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Artistic director: Wulf Konold
Scenery and costumes: Dietlind Konold
Il capriccio
Organised by the Goethe Theatre Bad Lauchstädt as part of the Handel Festival

Musical director: Ansgar Striepens
The Shout Choir London
Saxony-Anhalt Jazz Orchestra
Lautten Compagney Berlin
Musical director: Ansgar Striepens
Organised by the Saxony-Anhalt Music Council of as part of the Handel Festival

Bus tickets can only be booked in advance in conjunction with concert tickets!
Artistic director: Wulf Konold
Scenery and costumes: Dietlind Konold 
Il capriccio
Organised by the Goethe Theatre Bad Lauchstädt as part of the Handel Festival

Musical director: Bernhard Forck
Directed by: Nicola Hümpel
Set designer: Oliver Proske
Nico and the Navigators
Handel Festival Orchestra Halle
In Italian with German supertitles
Co-produced by the Handel Festival Halle and Halle Opera

Bus tickets can only be booked in advance in conjunction with concert tickets!
Artistic director: Wulf Konold
Scenery and costumes: Dietlind Konold 
Il capriccio
Organised by the Goethe Theatre Bad Lauchstädt as part of the Handel Festival

8pm, Handel House Glass Hall  - Martin Stephan on the Johann Gottlieb Mauer organ from 1770
9pm Marktkirche zu Halle - Irénée Peyrot on the Schuke organ from 1984
10pm Halle Cathedral - Ottavio Dantone on the Stephani organ from 1799
11pm Ulrichskirche Concert Hall - Martin Stephan on the Sauer organ from 1980

A stage portrayal of the composer
Unter den Linden Chamber Orchestra
Musical director: Andreas Peer Kähler

Yosemeh Adjei, altus
Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet
Telemann Consort Hamburg

Guided tour of the musical instrument exhibition with Christiane Rieche, curator.
(Tickets: €4, concessions €2.50, number of participants limited)

Olaf Bär, baritone
Stadtsingechor zu Halle
Johann Friedrich Reichardt University Choir Halle
Staatskapelle Halle
Musical director: Markus Landerer
In collaboration with MAESTROS VON MORGEN / Concert by the German Music Council Conductors’ Forum