The Hallé
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![The Hallé's first programme (1858)](/Images/godic/202501/17/Hallé-first-concert1942.jpg")
![The Hallé performing at Jodrell Bank Observatory.](/Images/godic/202501/17/Jodrell_Bank_Live_2013_141942.jpg")
![Mark Elder](/Images/godic/202501/17/Mark_Elder1942.jpg")
The Hallé is an English symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England. It supports a choir, youth choir, youth training choir, children's choir and a youth orchestra, and releases its recordings on its own record label, though it has occasionally released recordings on Angel Records and EMI. Since 1996 the orchestra has been resident at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.