The Passion

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Campfield Market HallCampfield Avenue Arcade, Manchester, North-West, M3 4FH, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (with a new finale by Sir James MacMillan)

Performers

Streetwise Opera
Harry Christophers	Conductor
Penny Woolcock	Director
Dick Bird	Set Designer, Costume Designer
The Sixteen
The Orchestra of The Sixteen
Anita Ferguson	Mezzo-soprano
Hannah Pedley	Mezzo-soprano
Joshua Ellicott	Tenor	Evangelist
David Owen-Lewis	Baritone	Caiaphas
Jonathan Ainscough	Tenor	Peter
Msurshima Yongo	Soprano	Jesus Christ
Gavin Bailey	Bass	Pilate

Map

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The Passion takes to Manchester's streets

Imogen Phoebe Webb, 28th March

Under the baton of Harry Christophers and direction of Penny Woolcock, Streetwise Opera, The Sixteen, Sixteen Orchestra, backed by a number of Manchester-based organisations came together to bring a well-crafted Easter dramatisation of one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s seminal oratorios.

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