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Matthäus-Passion

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Date Thursday, 25/March/2027 19:00 ( 3 more dates )
Venue Deutsche Oper Berlin
Address Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin-Charlottenburg

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St Matthew Passion

Matthäus-Passion – Joshua Ellicott als Evangelist; Kinder des Kinderchores

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Kinder des Kinderchores

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Joshua Ellicott als Evangelist, Kinder des Kinderchores, Padraic Rowan als Jesus

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Ein Kind des Kinderchores

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Kinder des Kinderchores

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Joshua Ellicott als Evangelist, Kinder des Kinderchores

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Kinder des Kinderchores

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Kinder des Kinderchores

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Joshua Ellicott als Evangelist, Kinder des Kinderchores

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Kinder des Kinderchores

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz
Matthäus-Passion – Kinder des Kinderchores sowie das Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

© 2023, Marcus Lieberenz

This oratorio tells the story of the last days in the life of Jesus Christ. Exactly three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach set the Gospel text to music: The premiere was held on Good Friday in 1727. Benedikt von Peter’s production takes the inherent tradition of the Stations of the Cross seriously: Bach’s double-choir masterpiece unfolds as an acoustic crucifix; the audience sits amidst the musical action, exposing their own bodies to this Passion and its unsettling beauty. Betrayal, mortal agony, sacrifice and forgiveness do not appear as a distant event of salvation, but as a sober question for our present: What are the sins for which the Son must be sacrificed year after year? Not the Evangelist, but children bring the parable to life. They shoulder the cross, prevent Judas’s suicide with an embrace, and put the value system of a Christian society up for discussion. Marc Minkowski, a renowned specialist in Baroque vocal music and a guest at the Deutsche Oper for the first time, conducts this special revival exactly on the 300th anniversary of the work!

Artists/Collaborators: Benedikt von Peter (Regie), Marc Minkowski (Musikalische Leitung), Ulrike Jühe (Regiemitarbeit), Natascha von Steiger (Bühnenbild), Lene Schwind (Kostüme), Bert Zander (Video), Roland Edrich (Licht), Marco Medved (Choreinstudierung), Christian Lindhorst (Einstudierung des Kinderchores), Dorothea Hartmann (Dramaturgie), Kieran Carrel (Evangelist), Petr Nekoranec (Tenor / Zeuge), Nicolai Elsberg (Jesus), Padraic Rowan (Bass), Christopher Humbert Jr. (Petrus / Pontifex), Tom Nicholson (Judas / Pilatus / Pontifex), Lilit Davtyan (Sopran / Magd / Frau des Pilatus), Maria Warenberg (Alt / Zeuge / Magd), Young Choi (Hohepriester), N. N. (Mädchen), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre), Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)

In German language with German and English surtitles

45 minutes before the performance in the Rang Foyer on the right

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