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On demand from Wednesday 31 August 2022 20:00
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| Wednesday 31 August 2022 | 20:00 |
Programme
| Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) | St John Passion, BWV245 (with a new text by Thomas Höft) |
Performers
| Susanne Elmark | Soprano | |
| Yosemeh Adjei | Countertenor | |
| Raphaël Höhn | Tenor | narrator |
| Markus Schäfer | Tenor | |
| Dietrich Henschel | Baritone | |
| Art House 17 | ||
| Michael Hell | Director |
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion moves hundreds of thousands of concertgoers every year. To Bach’s unworldly music, dramatist Thomas Höft – in 2019 still co-curator of the Utrecht Early Music Festival – has written a new text that drags the score into a universal no man’s land, somewhere between secular practice and committed experience.
The author shifts the focus from the church to the city square with a scenario based around events that took place in Utrecht in 1730 and 1731, when the persecution of homosexuals degenerated into the notorious Utrecht sodomy trials, many of which ended in execution. Together with top soloists, ĀRT HOUSE 17 gives expression to a message that needs to be heard today.
