This concert series is a must for connoisseurs and enthusiasts: chamber music at its finest – subtle, intimate, and full of discoveries. Alongside the great masters of Viennese Classicism, the Handel Festival Orchestra, with its historically informed sound, will also be featured.

4. Classical Music in the Afternoon

Konzerthalle Ulrichskirche

On Valentine's Day, we invite you to a special family concert – full of excitement, goosebumps, and lots of music! Together with the Halle State Orchestra, we'll explore one of the greatest feelings of all: love. But what exactly is love? A flutter in your stomach? Deep affection for loved ones? Or perhaps simply a warm smile?

2nd Family Concert

Konzerte Volkspark Halle e.V.

A sunrise in the mountains, a strenuous climb, then the coolness of the forest and the sound of the waterfall. Lush mountain meadows and the ringing of cowbells, finally an approaching thunderstorm, lightning and thunder and a narrow survival at the dangerous height. What, if not a symphony orchestra, could depict this intoxication of colors and sounds? And who, if not Richard Strauss, could paint this sound painting? The Alpine Symphony features over 100 musicians, including wind machines, thunder sheets and cowbells. But Strauss depicts his mountain world with great sensitivity, creating new timbres in very different ensembles. And the hike to the mountain peak is not just to be understood literally - the symphonic poem is also related to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and can be understood as a depiction of an entire life.

8th Symphony Concert

Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle

King Albert Theater Bad Elster

We all know deep feelings of grief, despair and loneliness and are connected to all of humanity through them. Becoming aware of this can be comforting and dealing with these emotions can even have a healing effect. Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony is pain turned into sound and the expression of a deep personal crisis: his unhappy marriage plunged the homosexual composer into depression, and death seemed to him the only way out.

6th Symphony Concert

Erwin-Piscator-Hau

Works whose creators themselves did not think would one day be world famous: Johannes Brahms, a pianist by training, had already premiered his first piano concerto and the music world was eagerly awaiting a violin concerto by the 45-year-old. After all, Beethoven and Mendelssohn had presented masterpieces. The reviews were devastating: the conductor Hans von Bülow was of the opinion that the work was written less "for" than "against the violin", virtuosos such as Henryk Wieniawski called the piece "unplayable". Nowadays, this concerto is an indispensable part of a violinist's repertoire.

5th Symphony Concert

The concert series for connoisseurs and gourmets: Not only the masters of Viennese classical music are on the program here - you can also experience the Handel Festival Orchestra in this concert series of the Staatskapelle Halle. Always on Sunday afternoons, always great!

Classical Music in the Afternoon

Concert Hall Ulrichskirche

What is as much a part of New Year's Eve as exploding rockets, sparkling champagne and good company? The sounds of Beethoven's 9th Symphony! This work has been traditionally played on New Year's Eve in Germany for over a hundred years, because the "Ode to Joy" fits perfectly with the end of the year and in Halle you also have the chance to experience Beethoven's powerful work for symphony orchestra, choir and soloists live. The Staatskapelle Halle will ignite this firework of emotions together with you at the end of the year. When the call "All men become brothers" sounds in the final movement, it is nothing other than Beethoven's musical appeal for social cohesion, for humanity and peace. And so the Staatskapelle also wants to look ahead with this concert and

New Year's Eve concert

A traveling journeyman, through his flute playing and with the help of a musical mechanism built by Master Florian, prevents a rather decadent princess from being lynched by her own people.

The Music Box and the Princess

Halle Opera House

Opera Café

To kick off its anniversary year in 2026, the Halle State Orchestra invites you to a musical highlight: Under the direction of Fabrice Bollon, Baroque and Impressionist soundscapes will meet. Together with the Halle Handel Festival Orchestra – on period instruments – French music will be performed in all its stylistic breadth.

7th Symphony Concert

To mark the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis's birth, an extraordinary sound project is being created: Jazz trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky and conductor Fabrice Bollon are inspired by Davis's legendary album "Aura" and create two new works between jazz, classical and avant-garde music.

3. Through each other

Arthur Honegger's poignant oratorio "Joan of Arc at the Stake" movingly portrays the final hours of the French national heroine. Condemned as a heretic, the young woman remains steadfast to the very end – a symbol of civil courage, faith, and inner strength.

Fabrice Bollon

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 1 - May 24, 2026

The Music Box and the Princess · Staatskapelle Halle

19 - 20 Apr, 2026

7th Symphony Concert · Staatskapelle Halle

Apr 30, 2026

3. Through each other · Staatskapelle Halle

17 - 18 May, 2026

8th Symphony Concert · Staatskapelle Halle

Jul 3, 2026

2nd Serenade Concert · Staatskapelle Halle

Past events

Mar 1, 2026

4. Classical Music in the Afternoon · Staatskapelle Halle

Feb 14, 2026

2nd Family Concert · Staatskapelle Halle

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Cello Concerto No. 2 by Haydn

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Les Indes galantes by Rameau

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Symphony in E-flat major by Bach

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Symphony No. 1 by Farrenc

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in An Alpine Symphony by Strauss

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Daphnis et Chloé by Ravel

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Symphony No. 82 by Haydn

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Il Maestro di Capella by Cimarosa

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Concerto for 2 Flutes and Strings by Cimarosa

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Conductor in Small Orchestral Concert by Matthus

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Brahms

Staatskapelle Halle

Conductor in In the Summer Wind by Webern

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Conductor in Schelomo for cello and orchestra by Bloch

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Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Tchaikovsky

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Conductor in Inlandsis by Pépin

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Conductor in Medea, Ouvertüre by Cherubini

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Conductor in Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher by Honegger

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Conductor in Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin by Schreker

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Conductor in In Miles' aura by Bollon

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