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.”
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
Berliner Philharmoniker
as Self – Orchestra
