The Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe is a festival event for the works of the

baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

composer

George Frideric Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( ; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti. Born in Halle, Germany, H ...

. From 1977 to 1984 the

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is a theatre and opera house in Karlsruhe, Germany. It has existed in its present form and place at Ettlinger Tor since 1975. Achim Thorwald became the Theater manager, Intendant in summer 2002 and held that ...

organised the so-called ''Handel Days'', before the Baden town became the youngest of the three Handel festival venues in 1985. Since then, they have been held annually around 23 February, the composer's birthday. Initially, two, and in recent years one, own production of a stage work was presented. In addition, there are guest performances, orchestra and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

concerts. In 1984, a separate orchestra, the "Deutsche Händel-Solisten", was founded and is integrated into the festival programme. There is close cooperation between the Handel Festival and the Händelgesellschaft, founded in 1989 Karlsruhe e. V. and with the

Internationale Händel-Akademie The Internationale Händel-Akademie in Karlsruhe is one of the institutions dedicated to the cultivation of the work of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel and his time. Since 1986, parallel to the Karlsruhe Handel Festival, the international ...

founded in 1986 with

master class ''Master Class'' is a 1995 play by American playwright Terrence McNally, presented as a fictional master class by opera singer Maria Callas near the end of her life, in the 1970s. The play features incidental vocal music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giac ...

es for baroque performance practice. The management has been taken over by since 2014.Internationale Händel Festspiele Karlsruhe
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