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Groundbreaking edition 2018
The 71st Holland Festival closed on Sunday 1 July 2018 with George Benjamin's opera Lessons in Love and Violence, a co-production with the Dutch National Opera. After the Friends' performance of Tiefer Schweb on Friday evening, friends and partners of the Holland Festival bid farewell to parting artistic director Ruth Mackenzie with a standing ovation.
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extra tickets for trojan women
For the South Korean opera Trojan Women extra tickets are available for the performances on 8 and 9 June.
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Marthaler receives international ibsen award
Christoph Marthaler (1951), whose Tiefer Schweb will be performed in the coming Holland Festival, is to receive the International Ibsen Award.
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06 February 2018
Holland Festival 2018: A Stage for Great Names and New Talent
This year the Holland Festival invites artists crossing boundaries from the literal to the metaphoric, with artists from round the world exploring the tensions on the borders between their countries, to artists exploring the boundaries of civilised behaviour personally and in society.
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25 January 2018
William Kentridge and Faustin Linyekula Associate Artists for Holland Festival 2019
The South-African visual artist and stage director William Kentridge (1955) and the Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula (1974) have been appointed Associate Artists for the 72nd Holland Festival in 2019.
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aus LICHT – world premiere of highlights from Stockhausen’s masterpiece
Dutch National Opera, Holland Festival, Royal Conservatory and the Stockhausen Foundation for Music jointly present aus LICHT at the 2019 Holland Festival: a selection from the seven-opera cycle LICHT by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928—2007) in a performance spread over three consecutive days: in total, 16 hours of live music and 5 hours of electronic music.
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