Organization

Stage director

Ulrich Rasche

Conductor

Cornelius Meister

Lighting designer

Gerrit Jurda

Costume designer

Sara Schwartz

Romy Springsguth

Set designer

Dramaturge

Franz-Erdmann Meyer-Herder

Chorus master

Manuel Pujol

Singer

Tenor

Moritz Kallenberg

Evangelist

Bass

Andreas Wolf

Pilate

Shigeo Ishino

Jesus

Peter

Soprano

Fanie Antonelou

Maid

Christopher Sokolowski

Servant

Beate Ritter

Jesus followers

Alexandra Urquiola

Johannes Kammler

Kai Kluge

Jesus accusers

Linsey Coppens

Jasper Leever

Michael Nagl

Video designer

Florian Seufert

Choreographer

Toni Jessen

Others

Staatsopernchor der Oper Stuttgart

Orchestra

Staatsorchesters Stuttgart

Staatsoper Stuttgart

German

St. John Passion, BWV 245 -  (St John Passion)

Stuttgart

Germany

Johannes-Passion

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Private

St John Passion

Approved

Ein Einblick in die Orchesterproben zur szenischen Neuproduktion von Bachs JOHANNES-PASSION: Die Geigerinnen Fiona Stevens und Veronika Unger vom Staatsorchester Stuttgart erzählen von den Besonderheiten barocken Musizierens und ihrer Liebe zu Bachs Musik!

Musikalische Leitung: Cornelius Meister
Inszenierung: Ulrich Rasche

“In the symbolic emptiness, all meaningful and community-forming images and metaphors that stabilize life are lost. The experience of duration decreases.” (Byung-Chul Han) The central function of the rite, the cultic-religious celebration celebrated collectively, has always been to create symbolic cement with which groups of a common origin remember (this was once the European theater born out of the Greek cult). In Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion, too, the retelling of the Passion of Jesus Christ has a universal, politically communitarian side: the question of Jesus' origin splits a group and produces voices with different identification values. In the heart-shattering musical devotional images, some delve into the human dimensions of Jesus' suffering and find comfort and strength in it. Others doubt its divine origin, lose their empathy, accuse and rage. The St. John Passion draws attention not only to the hereafter, but also to the origin of individual action from the collective attitude - to questions of domination and belonging, the suffering of others and responsibility towards them. Given all we know and how we have lived, does not a reappraisal of the individual's entanglement with the world be necessary? Director and stage designer Ulrich Rasche projects these themes into a chorus whose accusations and pity reflect perspectives of the community.

English

St John Passion by Bach, J. S., From (2021/2021), Directed by Ulrich Rasche,, Conductor Cornelius Meister

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