London Handel Festival

14/01/2025

Final 24 hours to apply for this year's International Handel Singing Competition ✨

Deadline: tomorrow, 15 January, 12pm

All candidates must supply a good quality video recording of them performing an aria by Handel. Ideally, this will include a recitative and should be at least 3 minutes long (including any da capo or dal segno) and no longer than 9 minutes. The performance can be accompanied by any keyboard instrument or ensemble.

Both the Semi Final and Final are open to the public as part of the annual London Handel Festival and are well attended, coveted events. Many agents and promoters attend these performances.

Cash prizes available include:

First prize: £5,000
Second prize: £2,000
Audience prize: £300

Applications will be accepted until midday tomorrow and full details can be found via the LHF website 🎵

The London Handel Festival is an annual celebration of the work of George Frideric Handel. Each year we present a critically acclaimed season of concerts, recitals, talks and walks, and everyone is welcome.

09/01/2025

At this special recital in the beautiful setting of the Picture Gallery at the The Foundling Museum, Arcangelo Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen introduces the five members of Arcangelo’s 2024-26 New Ensemblists programme: violinists Leo Appel and Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro, violist Jaume Pueyo Solà, cellist Martin Egidi and bassoonist Francisco Javier Sánchez Castillo.

Only 30 tickets remain for this intimate recital with a programme of chamber delights featuring music from Handel and his contemporaries.

All tickets include entry to the Foundling Museum ✨

The London Handel Festival is an annual celebration of the work of George Frideric Handel. Each year we present a critically acclaimed season of concerts, recitals, talks and walks, and everyone is welcome.

08/01/2025

Central to our 2025 Festival, a sensational double bill presented by the Handel Opera Studio of Handel's 'Apollo & Dafne' and 'The Choice of Hercules' ⚔️

Acclaimed director Thomas Guthrie joins rising-star choreographer Valentino Zucchettito to create a spellbinding evening of mythical and fantastical storytelling through drama and dance at Shoreditch Town Hall with New English Ballet Theatre and La Nuova Musica.

Promising to be the highlight of the 2025 London Handel Festival, early booking is highly recommended for this short run.

https://www.london-handel-festival.com/2025-fantasy-myth-legend-2/events-calendar/page/2/

07/01/2025

Just over one week until applications close for the 2025 International Handel Singing Competition 🎵

All candidates must supply a good quality video recording of them performing an aria by Handel. Ideally, this will include a recitative and should be at least 3 minutes long (including any da capo or dal segno) and no longer than 9 minutes. The performance can be accompanied by any keyboard instrument or ensemble.

The HSC Final remains one of the London Handel Festival's most coveted events and this year finalists will perform alongside the Academy of Ancient Music.

First Prize – £5,000
Second Prize – £2,000
Audience Prize – £300

Deadline: 12pm, Wednesday 15 January

The London Handel Festival is an annual celebration of the work of George Frideric Handel. Each year we present a critically acclaimed season of concerts, recitals, talks and walks, and everyone is welcome.

24/12/2024

From all of us at the London Handel Festival, wishing you a wonderful festive season, a peaceful Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year ✨

17/12/2024

Top tickets for key events in our 2025 Festival are selling quickly 💨

✨ Opening Concert: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with Arcangelo

🎺 Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Irish Baroque Orchestra

🏛️ Floridante with Early Opera Company

Secure your tickets now via the LHF website

https://www.london-handel-festival.com/2025-fantasy-myth-legend-2/events-calendar/

12/12/2024

Our first sell-out event for 2025 ✨

Stars of the Future at Handel Hendrix House with The Royal Academy of Music

To join the waitlist, email [email protected]

10/12/2024

Looking back at a sensational performance of Handel's Messiah last week at St George's, Hanover Square.

For his final performance as Associate Musical Director of the London Handel Festival, Adrian Butterfield directed the London Handel Orchestra, Choir of St George's and soloists Hilary Cronin, Alexander Chance, Nicholas Mulroy and Felix Kemp ✨

📷 Craig Fuller

03/12/2024

Today's the day!

Give today and help us enrich lives through Handel's music and reach families with special needs, older people who experience loneliness and children and young people.

We're looking to raise £15,000 to support our Creative Learning & Participation programme and any donation, however large or small, will make a huge difference.

Thank you for your support ⭐

https://www.london-handel-festival.com/donate/?dm_i=4N6L,1OWC2,6LNXVB,7YIWU,1

02/12/2024

📣 Final tickets remaining

Join us this Thursday for our coveted annual performance of Handel's Messiah ✨

With a stellar line-up of soloists including Hilary Cronin, Alexander Chance, Nicholas Mulroy and Felix Kemp, this year’s performance promises to be extra special as it will be London Handel Festival’s Associate Musical Director Adrian Butterfield’s final performance in his role.

Last tickets available now via the LHF website 🎫

The London Handel Festival is an annual celebration of the work of George Frideric Handel. Each year we present a critically acclaimed season of concerts, recitals, talks and walks, and everyone is welcome.

30/11/2024

We're taking part in this year to raise money for our Creative Learning and Participation programme.

We're looking to raise £15,000 to provide Handel performances and workshops for families with special needs, children and young people, and older people experiencing loneliness.

Join in global on Tuesday 3rd December and help us enrich lives through Handel's music.

Thank you for your support!

28/11/2024

One of the world's leading competition for Baroque singers, applications are open for the 2025 International Handel Singing Competition.

All candidates must supply a good quality video recording of them performing an aria by Handel. Ideally, this will include a recitative and should be at least 3 minutes long (including any da capo or dal segno) and no longer than 9 minutes. The performance can be accompanied by any keyboard instrument or ensemble.

Deadline: 12pm, 15 January 2025

Full details available via our website 🎵

https://www.london-handel-festival.com/show/2025-international-handel-singing-competition-application-to-enter/

25/11/2024

Opening the 2025 Festival - L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato ✨

Critically-acclaimed ensemble Arcangelo, opens the London Handel Festival 2025 in style with its debut performance as Principal Ensemble in Residence, under the direction of Jonathan Cohen in his debut as Artistic Adviser. The massed orchestral and choral forces are joined by a star-studded line-up of international soloists to perform one of Handel’s most inventive, unique, and inspiring works.

Based on the imaginative poetry of John Milton, Handel’s L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato is a breathtaking collision of darkness and light, innocence and experience: a celebration of the wonders of nature and the mysteries of life, and a superbly apt work with which to introduce a significant new chapter in the story of the London Handel Festival.

Top-tier tickets are selling quickly so head to our website to secure your seats now 🎫

The London Handel Festival is an annual celebration of the work of George Frideric Handel. Each year we present a critically acclaimed season of concerts, recitals, talks and walks, and everyone is welcome.

14/11/2024

Priority booking is available for LHF Members until 20 November ⭐

Many of the venues in our 2025 Festival have limited capacity and our events historically sellout incredibly quickly. Priority booking is exclusive to LHF members and allows you to book with peace of mind in securing your preferred seats.

As a member, alongside priority booking, you receive a range of benefits including invitations to members-only events, the opportunity to meet musicians, backstage tours, attend rehearsals as well as discounts on programmes and our bars.

Interested? Head to the LHF website below and sign up now from just £50 per annum

https://www.london-handel-festival.com/support-us-2/

07/11/2024

Enabling you, our audience, to delve deeper into the treasure trove of Handel’s music, experience his genius, and have your life enriched by his music, discover the full 2025 Festival now ⚔️

Priority booking now open with general booking opening from 20 November

https://www.london-handel-festival.com/2025-fantasy-myth-legend-2/events-calendar/