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Kick-off to the International Handel Festival Göttingen: On May 16th, Handel's "Solomon" will be performed together with the Göttingen Festival Orchestra and the NDR Vokalensemble under the direction of George Petrou.

International Handel Festival Göttingen: "Solomon"

Stadthalle Göttingen

Handel's "Solomon" under the direction of baroque specialist George Petrou in the Elphi: At the Hamburg International Music Festival on May 15, the Göttingen Festival Orchestra, the NDR Vokalensemble and top-class soloists will perform.

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Hamburg International Music Festival: Handel's "Solomon"

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

A great journey into the inner human being: This is Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion , perhaps the most significant religious musical work of the 18th century, which can still touch us today as it did 300 years ago: with its story of faith and doubt, of loyalty and betrayal, of hope and despair. In contrast to its dramatic sister, the St. John Passion , the focus of the St. Matthew Passion is on the inner journey that we all take when we relive and experience the suffering of Jesus Christ. And the St. Matthew Passion is not just a work for believers, for those connected to the Christian religion, but it also questions our values, our relationship to life and death, to this world and the next. The scope and instrumentation are larger, more powerful than in the St. John Passion : two choirs and two orchestras are contrasted, symbolizing the earthly and the divine spheres.

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Armin Kolarczyk

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 3, 2026

St. Matthew Passion · Beethoven Orchester Bonn

Past events

May 16, 2025

International Handel Festival Göttingen: "Solomon" · NDR Vokalensemble

May 15, 2025

Hamburg International Music Festival: Handel's "Solomon" · NDR Vokalensemble

Future and recently performed repertoire

Levit in Solomon by Handel

NDR Vokalensemble

Singer in St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 by Bach

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

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