The Oper Halle Chorus was founded between 1811 and 1836 as a theatre choir. Its extensive and stylistically diverse repertoire includes world premiere performances, such as the opera-oratorio Sky Disc – Himmelsscheibe – Disc del cel and Johannes Kreidler’s Mein Staat als Freund und Geliebte, as well as the Handel operas and oratorios that are performed during the annual Händel-Festspiele. The choir has also performed in musicals including The Scarlet Pimpernel (with recording), The Three Musketeers and Sweeney Todd.

Since the 1980s, the choir has increasingly demonstrated its skills in major concert performances, and has performed Haydn’s The Creation, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem and Britten’s War Requiem, among others. The choir also demonstrates its wide-ranging repertoire in its own concerts, whether with the Staatskapelle Halle, organ accompaniment or a cappella, and members of the opera choir take on solo roles in musical theatre productions, as well as in the city’s concert and church music scenes.

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