St. John Passion

In this work, Bach deploys a cast worthy of an opera, with soloists embodying different characters in the drama and the choir becoming the most terrifying of them all: the crowd. By turns hateful, bloodthirsty, and mocking, she becomes a ruthless actor in the tragedy. 

Bach offers us the story of a man facing injustice, betrayal, and death; a deeply human drama whose emotional power remains intact after two millennia and which Bach's music continues to magnify, 300 years after it was written.