Bach: St. John Passion

Bach: St. John Passion (2014) is a film directed by Peter Sellars.

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.”

Cast

Camilla Tilling

Soprano

Magdalena Kožená

Mezzo-Soprano

Topi Lehtipuu

Tenor

Mark Padmore

Evangelist (Tenor)

Christian Gerhaher

Pilatus / Petrus (Bass)

Roderick Williams

Jesus (Bass)

Simon Rattle

Self – Conductor

Berlin Philharmonic

Self – Orchestra