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Across historic medieval vaulted sanctuaries and sunlit naves, the Haapsalu Early Music Festival weaves Baroque oratorios, intimate lute recitals and Renaissance polyphony into the lingering twilight of the Baltic summer.

Is Handel’s Semele an oratorio or an opera? Of course Handel himself called it an oratorio but some suggest it is the English-language opera that he never wrote. 

Das Concerto Copenhagen unter der Leitung von Lars Ulrik Mortensen eröffnet mit Israel in Egypt das diesjährige Resonanzen-Festival.