
Nocturne
Tomoko Mukaiyama
The last festival under director Pierre Audi saw lots of attention devoted to dance and music. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker opened the festival with her magnificent Vortex Temporum. Further highlights included Handel’s masterpiece Orlando, conducted by René Jacobs, alongside a video piece by William Kentridge based on Schubert’s Winterreise. The festival featured many big names from theatre: Peter Brook, Simon Stone and Ivo van Hove had new pieces, and Isabella Rossellini was in a jam-packed Stadsschouwburg with a piece about the sex lives of animals.
Tomoko Mukaiyama
Germaine Kruip
Trajal Harrell
Abel Gance, Carl Davis, Het Gelders Orkest
Matthew Barney, Jonathan Bepler
Roysten Abel
William Kentridge, Matthias Goerne, Markus Hinterhäuser
Studenten Koninklijk Conservatorium, Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble & Clarini baroque trumpet consort
Ingo Metzmacher, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Experimental-studio des SWR, Schola Heidelberg
Nuria Schoenberg Nono
Luigi Nono, Universiteit van Amsterdam
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ingo Metzmacher, Experimentalstudio des SWR, Cappella Amsterdam
Luigi Nono, Universiteit van Amsterdam
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ingo Metzmacher, Experimentalstudio des SWR, Schola Heidelberg, Cappella Amsterdam
Irvine Arditti, André Richard
Michael Morpurgo, Nick Stafford, Handspring Puppet Company
Robert Lepage
Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne, Bouffes du Nord
Ivo van Hove, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Ayn Rand
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Kušej, Residenztheater
John Ford, Cheek by Jowl
De Warme Winkel
Isabella Rossellini
Simon Stone, Belvoir, Sydney
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Rosas, Ictus
León & Lightfoot, Nederlands Dans Theater 1, Kronos Quartet
Serge Kakudji, Fabrizio Cassol, Rodriguez Vangama, Alain Platel, KVS & les ballets C de la B
Het Nationale Ballet, Krzysztof Pastor
William Forsythe, The Forsythe Company
Lemi Ponifasio, MAU
Studenten Koninklijk Conservatorium, Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble & Clarini baroque trumpet consort
Cas Smithuijsen, Ensemble Klang, Louis Andriessen, Kate Moore
Patrick Soediono Karijowidjojo
House of Vineyard
Shara Worden
Yuri Landman
Nuria Schoenberg Nono
Luigi Nono, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Luigi Nono, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Norman Mailers, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Tim de Gier
DJ Safri, Jelle Brandt Corstius, Joeri Tandoori
In samenwerking met Academisch-cultureel centrum Spui25
Perzische dichters
Pierre Audi
Meral Polat, Beppe Costa
Liz Waterhouse, William Forsythe
Carlama Orkestar
Nico Muhly, David T. Little
Nico Muhly, Oneohtrix Point Never
Abida Parveen
Matthew Herbert
Philip Glass, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Groot Omroepkoor
Ingo Metzmacher, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Experimental-studio des SWR, Schola Heidelberg
Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, George Benjamin, Helen Grime, György Ligeti, Maurice Ravel
Nishtiman
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ingo Metzmacher, Experimentalstudio des SWR, Cappella Amsterdam
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ingo Metzmacher, Experimentalstudio des SWR, Schola Heidelberg, Cappella Amsterdam
Irvine Arditti, André Richard
Metropole Orkest
John Butcher, Mark Sanders
Welcome to the Holland Festival archive! The history of our festival dates back to 1947. Through the programs of each festival edition we aim to tell this history here. Currently our archive has been digitised from 1990 onwards, more history is to follow soon. Sadly some information is only available in Dutch but we aim to be as bilingual as possible. For additions or tips send an email to [email protected].