London Handel Festival

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/

06/11/2024

Introducing the 2025 London Handel Festival: 'Fantasy, Myth & Legend' ⚔️

Showcasing performances of Handel's most sensational works that explore stories of fantasy, myth and legend, alongside the legendary artists who perform them, discover the full programme tomorrow from 10am on the LHF website ⭐

Property booking opens tomorrow, general booking from 20 November

05/11/2024

1 day until our 2025 Festival Launch 👀

Our 2025 programme enables 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.

There's still time to join us tomorrow night as an LHF member or by signing up to our mailing list 🗞️

04/11/2024

2 days until the 2025 Festival Launch

Make sure you're signed up to our mailing list to be the first to hear about the 2025 London Handel Festival 🎵

04/11/2024

📣 Applications are now open for the 2025 International Handel Singing Competition

Open to all singers globally aged between 23 – 34 on April 2nd 2025, the HSC is a showcase for historically-informed performance of Handel’s music and one of the world's leading competitions for Baroque singers.

🎵 Preliminary Round

For the preliminary round, 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. Past finalists of the competition include Iestyn Davies, Ruby Hughes, Lucy Crowe, Tim Mead, Sophie Junker, Anna Starushkeyych, Grace Davidson, Alexander Chance and Hilary Cronin, Fflur Wyn, Anna Devin and Christopher Lowrey.

📅 Deadlines

Preliminary Round submission deadline 12pm, 15 January 2025

Results of Preliminary Round selection 29 January 2025

First Round 17 & 18 February 2025

Semi Final 4 March 2025

Final 2 April 2025

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Visit the link below for full details and to apply:

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.