Bach: St. John Passion

Bach: St. John Passion (2014)

Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle was one of the outstanding events of the past season. As before with the St Matthew Passion, star director Peter Sellars succeeded in creating a staging which made the spiritual and dramatic content of the Passion story even more intensive. The New York Times also praised the “brilliant and energetic” playing of the orchestra, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung the “haunting, almost unsurpassable singing of all those involved.”

Director: Peter Sellars

Casts

	Camilla Tilling as Soprano
	Magdalena Kožená as Mezzo-Soprano
	Topi Lehtipuu as Tenor
	Mark Padmore as Evangelist (Tenor)
	Christian Gerhaher as Pilatus / Petrus (Bass)
	Roderick Williams as Jesus (Bass)
	Simon Rattle as Self – Conductor
	Berlin Philharmonic as Self – Orchestra

Crew