By 
1 minute
For its 20th edition, from November 21, 2026 to January 29, 2027, the Winter in Schwetzingen festival places women at the heart of its programme. At the Rococo theatre of Schwetzingen Palace, near Heidelberg in south-western Germany, Handel’s Agrippina opens the festivities on November 21. Composed in Venice in 1709, the opera revealed the young Handel’s dramatic genius. Claudia Isabel Martin directs this new production, conducted by Gerd Amelung, with Rahel Brede in the title role.
Among the other highlights, lautten compagney BERLIN and soprano Johanna Kaldewei celebrate Baroque heroines in La Diva (December 6), while Maurice Steger brings his recorder virtuosity to Festivo (December 16 and 17). On December 29, countertenor Rémy Brès-Feuillet and Compagnie La Demeure explore Handel’s English contemporaries, from Greene to Arne and Stanley. Finally, on January 22, Les Kapsber’girls pay tribute to the seventeenth-century Italian women composers Barbara Strozzi, Antonia Bembo and Francesca Campana with Vox Feminae.
An anniversary edition combining great operatic heroines, musical rediscoveries and a new artistic direction under Sarah Grahneis and Florian Scheiber.
Official website: https://www.theaterheidelberg.de
You must be logged in to be able to post comments.
Sign in