PRESS KIT 2016 Halle Handel Festival in Halle (Saale) since 1922 PRESS KIT 27 – June 12, 2016 Introducing the programme of the Media contact: Maria Scheunpflug Press and PR Work Officer 2016 HANDEL FESTIVAL Tel.: +49 (0) 345 / 500 90 126 Fax: +49 (0) 345 / 500 90 416 E-Mail:
[email protected] a music festival in authentic venues in the city of George Frideric Handel’s birth, Halle an der Saale Press Conference November 18, 2015, 2pm, Chamber Music Room, Handel House in Halle With the participation of: Dr. Bernd Wiegand, Mayor of Halle an der Saale / President of the Handel House Foundation Board of Trustees Stephan Dorgerloh, Culture Minister of Saxony-Anhalt and Vice- President of the Handel House Foundation Board of Trustees Dr. Jürgen Fox, Chairman of the Executive Board, Saalespar- kasse Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hirschmann, President of Georg-Friedrich- Händel-Gesellschaft Internationale Vereinigung e. V. / Professor at the Institute of Music at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle- Wittenberg /President of the Handel House Halle Foundation Ad- visory Council Wolfgang Katschner, Artistic Director of Lautten Compagney Berlin / Artistic Director of Didone abbandonata, HWV A12 (to be performed in the Goethe Theatre, Bad Lauchstädt on May 28, 29 and 30, 2016) Clemens Birnbaum, Director of the Handel House Foundation and Executive Director of the Handel Festival 1 PRESS KIT 2016 Halle Handel Festival in Halle (Saale) since 1922 Contents 27 – June 12, 2016 Media contact: Maria Scheunpflug Press and PR Work Officer Press release Tel.: