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Inspirational: Bach's St Matthew Passion takes to Manchester's streets

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“a performance of serious integrity”
Reviewed at Campfield Market Hall, Manchester on 25 March 2016
Bach, St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (with a new finale by Sir James MacMillan)
Streetwise Opera
Harry Christophers, Conductor
Penny Woolcock, Director
Dick Bird, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Joshua Ellicott, Evangelist
David Owen-Lewis, Caiaphas
Jonathan Ainscough, Peter
Msurshima Yongo, Jesus Christ
Gavin Bailey, Pilate
The Sixteen
The Orchestra of The Sixteen
Anita Ferguson, Mezzo-soprano
Hannah Pedley, Mezzo-soprano
Tête-à-Tête: From TV dinners to highway robbery
***11
The Pearl Fishers: a lackluster evening at The Met
***11
Fishing for pearls in Los Angeles
*****
Slow to ignite: Bizet’s Pearl Fishers at ENO
***11
Gorgeous trio of voices in the Met’s Pearl Fishers
*****
Musical grit mars a pearl of a production
**111
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