In the historic heart of Germany, only one hour by train from Berlin, are the neighbouring cities of Leipzig and Halle (Saale). Music history was written in both cities. Two of the world’s most important composers lived here.

Both cities host splendid music festivals each year in June at locations historically connected with the musicians. Music lovers from around the world can encounter international stars at the Handel Festival Halle and the Leipzig Bach Festival.

The programme features more than 100 events held over 17 days, including four staged opera productions, two oratorios and a ballet performance. The beloved arias will echo at authentic locations such as the church where Handel was baptised in a series of festival concerts with international singing stars. Handel’s masterpieces can truly be “experienced” at the places of his youth and his early work.

Johann Sebastian Bach composed his passions, the ora-torios and a large part of the cantatas in Leipzig. These were performed for the first time in the main churches of St. Nicholas and St. Thomas. At the Leipzig Bach Festival, Bach’s works can be experienced where they were origi-nally performed. The major Bach performers today will appear here, including Bach’s own ensemble, the St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, now more than 800 years old. Over 100 events woll take place over ten festival days.

George Frideric Handel – a great European, well trav-elled, worldly, polyglot. His fascinating artistic biography is presented in the house where the composer was born. Multi media displays and detailed restagings, such as the miniature Baroque theatre, bring the city’s famous son to life. The exhibiton is complemented by a major col-lection of historical music instruments and the historic Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Haus.

The Bach Museum is located directly opposite the Church of St. Thomas in Leipzig. It provides insights into the life and work of the Bach family in an interactive, multimedia exhibition. Precious manuscripts from the extensive hold-ings of the Leipzig Bach Archive can also be admired here.

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George Frideric Handel was born in Halle and

received his musical training here.

He always felt close to his home town.

Johann Sebastian Bach was active in Leipzig for 27 years as Cantor of St. Thomas Church.

OF THE NEWEST GENERATION

BACH FESTIvAL LEIPzIG

première

HANDEL FESTIVAL HALLE27 mAY – 12 JUNe 2016

“History · Myth · Enlightenment”

28, 29 & 30 mAY 2016Goethe Theatre, Bad Lauchstädt

Didone abbandonataMusical direction: Wolfgang Katschner

A co-production by the Lautten Compagney Berlin, the Handel Festival Halle

and the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg

4 JUNe 2016Carl Maria von Weber Theatre, Bernburg

Hippolyte et Aricie ou la Belle-mère Amoureuse parody by Jean-philippe Desrousseaux

Based on the opera “Hippolyte et Aricie” by Jean-philippe rameau

Musical direction: Mira Glodeanu (violin)A co-production by

the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, the Teatru Manoel (Malta), the Théâtre

Montansier (Versailles) and the Vichy Opera

5 JUNe 2016Marktkirche (Market Church) Halle

Gala concert with Gabrieli Consort & playersMusical direction: Paul McCreesh

Gabrieli Consort & Players

9 JUNe 2016Georg-Friedrich-Händel HALLE

Handel goes wildMusical direction: Christina Pluhar (theorbo)

Soloists: Nuria Rial (soprano), Valer Sabadus (alto)L’Arpeggiata

11 & 12 JUNe 2016 Goethe Theatre, Bad Lauchstädt

publio Cornelio Scipione HWv 20Musical direction: George Petrou

Armonia Atenea

LEIpzIg BAcH FESTIVAL 10-19 JUNe 2016“Secrets of harmony”

11 JUNe 2016St. Nicholas Church No 14 – Latin and German church music

including J. S.Bach: magnificat in e flat majorSolomon’s Knot baroque collective Director: Jonathan Sells

12 JUNe 2016Market Square No 29 – Bach on airCameron Carpenter, organ

14 JUNe 2016St. Thomas Church No 49/50 – Nothing more perfectJ. S. Bach: Complete sonatas and partitas for solo violinChristian Tetzlaff, violin

16 JUNe 2016St. Thomas Church No 68 – Great passionJ. S. Bach: St. matthew passionMonteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists Director: Sir John Eliot Gardiner

18 JUNe 2016 Cantata dayEleven J. S. Bach cantatas in one day

19 JUNe 2016St. Thomas Church No 112 – Closing concertJ. S. Bach: mass in B minorLes Arts Florissants Director: William Christie

The house in which Handel was born in the old town of Halle (Saale).

The Handel House was extensively renovated and the prize-winning permanent exhibit “Handel – the European” opened in 2009.

Bach Festival concert in the Church of St. Nicholas in Leipzig, the origin of the peaceful Monday demonstrations in 1989.

The St. Thomas Boys Choir is one of the oldest boys choirs

in the world and takes the legacy of its famous cantor J. S. Bach

to every corner of the world.

DIEGO FASOLIS CAMERON CARPENTER PETER KOOIJ MARTIN STADTFELD

IAN BOSTRIDGE SIR ROGER NORRINGTON VALER SABADUS PAUL MCCREESH

DOROTHEE OBERLINGER GIOVANNI ANTONINI CHRISTINA PLUHAR SIR JOHN ELIOT GARDINER

exclusive “Handel” and “Bach” packages for 2016 Due to their close proximity to each other, the Handel Festival and the Bach Festival offer lovers of Baroque mu-sic the opportunity to visit both Halle (Saale) and Leipzig and discover locations historically connected with the musicians.

Handel package from 10 to 13 JUNe 20163 nights in a 4-star hotel in the centre of Halle including breakfast | incl. tickets (best category) for “Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day” at the Georg-F.-Händel HALLE, “publio

Cornelio Scipione” at the Goethe Theatre, Bad Lauchstädt, and the Gala concert with ian Bostridge at Halle Cathedral |

guided tour of the city, welcome package and Halle Welcome Card

price per person in double room: from €429.00 (single room supplement per night: from €33.00 plus any optional reservations, €10.00 processing fee for programme changes)

For reservations and detailed travel information: www.halle-tourismus.de

Bach package from 11 to 14 JUNe 20163 nights at victor’s Residenz-Hotel Leipzig**** incl. breakfast | tickets for “Latin and German church music” with Solomon’s Knot Baroque collective at St. Nicholas Church (11 June),

“Nothing but masterpieces” with the Hanover Boys Choir and Concerto Köln at St. Nicholas Church (12 June) and

“Organ concert” at St. Thomas Church (13 June) | welcome drink on arrival | surprise in your room.Optional extras: tour of the Bach Museum (€12.00 p.p.), 3-course dinner (€23.00 p.p.), admission to the “Bach Festival Lounge” at the open-air concert with Cameron Carpenter on 12 June (following the concert at St. Nicholas Church) incl. buffet and drinks (€25.00 p.p.)

price per person in double room: €347.50 (single room supplement: €127.50)

reservations: victor’s Residenz-Hotel Leipzig | Georgiring 13 D-04103 Leipzig | Germany | Telephone: +49 (0) 341 / 68 66-0

Email: info.leipzig@victors.de (Limited availability)

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BACH AND HANDEL

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THE LEIPZIG BACH FESTIVAL thanks its main sponsor, Sparkasse Leipzig, as well as its presentation partners:

BMW Werk Leipzig, Hypovereinsbank – Member of UniCredit, TOTAL Raffinerie Mittel-deutschland GmbH, BMW Niederlassung Leipzig, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Aon versicherungsmakler Deutschland GmbH, Stiftung Chorherren zu St. Thomae, Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Sachsens, Leipziger verkehrsbetriebe (LvB) GmbH

THE HANDEL FESTIVAL HALLE would like to thank:

Halle (Saale) City Council, the State Government of Saxony-Anhalt, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ostdeutsche Sparkassen-stiftung in collaboration with the Saalesparkasse, Lotto-Toto GmbH Sachsen-Anhalt, Hallesche Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH, TOTAL Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland GmbH, GP Günter Papenburg AG, Ströer Deutsche Städte Medien GmbH, Kathi Rainer Thiele GmbH, Stadtwerke Halle GmbH

www.baroquefestivalsgermany.com

LEGAL NOTICE: © 2016. A joint supplement published byStiftung Händel-Haus Halle | Große Nikolaistraße 5 | 06108 Halle (Saale) | GermanyBach-Archiv Leipzig, public foundation | Thomaskirchhof 15/16 | 04109 Leipzig | Germany

PHOTOGRAPHS: Uwe Arens, Marco Borggreve, Sim Canetty-Clarke, David Ellis, Manfred Esser, Thomas Grube, Harald Hoffmann, Johannes Ritter, Sheila Rock for Decca, Tonje Thilesen, Ben Wright, Yvonne zemke, Thomas ziegler

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programme subject to change.

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DO YOU LOVE BACH – OR HANDEL – OR BOTH? THREE WEEKS OF BAROqUE MUSIC IN AUTHENTIC PERFORMANCE vENUES

HANDEL FESTIVAL HALLE 27 MAY - 12 JUNE 2016 LEIPZIG BACH FESTIVAL 10 - 19 JUNE 2016

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Arrive comfortably in central Germany from LondonHeathrow in only approximately 90 minutes with a British Airways direct flight. The destination airport is Berlin-Tegel. From there you will travel with Deutsche Bahn (rail) to Leipzig or Halle (Saale). The travel time is also approximately 90 minutes.

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LONDON“BACHmosphere” in Leipzig: The composer’s works are presented in

jazz, rock and pop interpretations at open-air concerts and in clubs by

leading names in the music scene.

Full programme information and pictures are available at

www.baroquefestivalsgermany.com

Save the date:LEIPzIG BACH FESTIvAL 2017:

9 – 18 JUNEHANDEL FESTIvAL HALLE 2017:

26 MAY – 11 JUNE

The Church of St. Thomas in Leipzig was Johann Sebastian Bach’s

main place of work and is now his final resting place.

A jewel of Baroque architecture –

the historic Summer Hall in the Bach Museum in Leipzig.

Leopoldina: Germany’s National Academy of Sciences.

Halle Cathedral: George Frideric Handel was an organist here in 1702/03.

The breathtakingly beautiful natural landscape of the Galgenberg Gorge plays host to “Bridges to Classic” and the closing concert every year.

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