Göttingen International Handel Festival

The festival produces one fully staged opera by Handel every year and several of his oratorios.

In 2006, the festival created its own professional orchestra, the Festspiel Orchester Göttingen (FOG), which focuses on performing baroque music.

In addition, the Festival features several performances of the chamber music of Handel and his contemporaries.

The festival also features open-air classic events, late evening concerts and a host of other performances in especially distinctive surroundings, lectures, film showings and guided tours of the city.

Past artistic directors have included Fritz Lehmann, from 1934 to 1953, except for a break from 1944 through 1946 related to conflict with the Nazi authorities.