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Holland Festival

June 3, 2021 - June 27, 2021, Amsterdam

Please note: Due to COVID-19, all or part of this event will be held online. Check the organizer's website for up-to-date information.


Since 1947 the Holland Festival has been the number one trend-setting performing arts festival in Holland. The festival is a mixture of performing arts, theater, music theater, dance, opera and music, and visual arts, literature and architecture.

  • The Holland Festival offers serious pleasure.
  • International artists demonstrate cross-disciplinary art.
  • Spread across different locations in Amsterdam.
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  • Holland Festival Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam © Ada Nieuwendijk
    © Ada Nieuwendijk
    Holland Festival Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam © Ada Nieuwendijk
  • The just and the blind © Fadi Kheir
    © Fadi Kheir
    The just and the blind © Fadi Kheir
  • The planet a lament © Gregory Lorenzutti
    © Gregory Lorenzutti
    The planet a lament © Gregory Lorenzutti
  • Nous pour un moment © Elizabeth Carecchio
    © Elizabeth Carecchio
    Nous pour un moment © Elizabeth Carecchio
  • Holland Festival - Drei Schwestern © Judith Buss
    © Judith Buss
    Holland Festival - Drei Schwestern © Judith Buss

Daring and New

What makes the Holland Festival unique is the fact that it always tries to renew itself. Each year you’ll be surprised by daring experiments and trend-setting performances presented at an international level. No wonder the Holland Festival has been a popular event for over seventy years.

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Arts in Amsterdam

Holland Festival brings all the performance arts, a mix of big names and daring experiments together in Amsterdam. As the Holland Festival puts  it: “All aspects, colors and flavors of aesthetics are given attention and elbow room.”

The festival is held in several locations throughout Amsterdam, including the Westergasfabriek, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam South, and more towards the center at the Stadsschouwburg. 

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