Holland Festival

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The Holland Festival is the largest and oldest art and music festival in the Netherlands . It was founded in 1947 and takes place annually in Amsterdam at the beginning of June .

The focus is on classical and contemporary performances from theater , music , dance , opera and film . The joint project of primarily Dutch orchestras, opera, theater and dance groups has always offered a platform for foreign artists and thus developed into an instrument for intercultural exchange in the field of performing arts.

Venues

The Stadsschouwburg (new name Internationaal Theater Amsterdam) is one of the venues for the Holland Festival

The program is performed at renowned Amsterdam cultural sites such as the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (formerly Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam ), the Nationale Opera en Ballet (formerly Het Musiktheater ), the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (music building on the IJ ), the Concertgebouw , the Koninklijk Theater Carré and the Westergasfabriek .

history

The Holland Festival came into being in the years after the Second World War as a response to the growing need for cultural offers in the population. The first performance as part of the festival, Pelléas et Mélisande , took place on June 15, 1948 in the Stadsschouwburg. In 1952 the festival was one of the founding organizations of the European Festivals Association .

Folk concert conducted by Willem van Otterloo during the 1951 Holland Festival

Well-known productions and performances by international artists were, for example, the War Requiem ( Benjamin Britten , with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , 1964), the Stockhausen retrospective with the world premiere of the Helicopter String Quartet (1995), and the Biblical Pieces ( Igor Stravinsky , staged by Peter Sellars , 1999).

Among the national works, the performance of the anti-imperialist opera Reconstructie in 1969 caused a sensation.

In the mid-1990s, the Holland Festival fell into a temporary crisis due to declining visitor numbers and financial problems.

In 2005, the Holland Festival expanded its program to include EyeFuel and EarFuel - “fuel” for the eyes and ears, which are primarily intended to attract the younger audience.

Artistic director

Web links

Commons : Holland Festival  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Singing is gymnastics , in: DER SPIEGEL, issue 33, 1964
  2. ↑ Short biography of Karlheinz Stockhausen (PDF; 196 kB) at www.stockhausen.org
  3. ↑ a b R. de Beer, B. Witman, A Korteweg: Geen geld, geen idee, geen gezicht Holland Festival verkeert in impasse , in: de Volkskrant, November 1, 1996 (Dutch)
  4. ↑ R. Demarco: Obituary: Peter Diamand , in: The Independent, January 21, 1998 (English)
  5. ^ Portrait of Ivo van Hove ( Memento from April 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), toneelgroep amsterdam, February 23, 2005 (Dutch)