Around the Music Festival

Since 2021, the Göttingen Handel Music Festival has decided to invite the conductor George Petrou as artistic director. Succession of Laurence Cummings who has led the music festival since 2012. The music festival was founded in 1920, now held in late May. During the period, one Handel opera work is performed (“Aluminio” was performed in 2018), and other works of composers who worked at the same time with Handel are played. From 1981 to 1990 John Eliot Gardiner served as artistic director. Petrou is from Greece and is known as Handel ‘s specialist.

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