Bach: St. John Passion
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.”
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Camilla Tilling
Soprano
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Peter Sellars Director · Johann Sebastian Bach Composer
First release March 22, 2014 · Produced in Germany
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Deutsche Grammophon
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Germany
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German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · March 22, 2014
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No release date listed for United States.
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