With hymns and solos covering part of the Gospel of John, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion” is a big undertaking. “It’s a huge piece for chorus and orchestra and soloists,” Tom Remenschneider ...

"QueerPassion," by author, director and dramaturge Thomas Höft, opens with a reference to the June 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting targeting the LGBTQ+ community, in which 49 people died and 53 were ...

Described as a musical masterpiece and immersive experience that speaks to the soul, the newly founded Augustana Bach Collegium invites you to celebrate the intersection of faith and the arts through ...

Immediate indeed, but this Passion was never too fast, only continuous in its drama so that even the chorales, with every word illuminated as Bach so expressively set it, hit home like a Greek chorus ...

Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Mӧst will convene a panel of guest speakers to address the question “Is Bach’s St. John Passion anti-Semitic?”—a lingering claim that surrounds this ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Conducted by Music Director Rossen Milanov, the Columbus Symphony will ...

Tickets: $30 at the door. Visit boulderbachfestival.org for information. DENVER — Rick Erickson has arrived. It is time for Boulder’s classical scene to fully embrace the Boulder Bach Festival music ...

On Good Friday, pious Lutherans in Bach’s 18th-century Leipzig sat in church for hours. They listened to sermons, sang, prayed and meditated on the Passion of Christ, all punctuated by solemn tolling ...

That is one of the questions the Oratory Bach Ensemble and Minnesota Dance Theatre set out to answer Friday evening at the Lab Theater in Minneapolis. Their point of collaboration was Bach's "St. John ...

This Passion is visceral and violent, with ear-severing, beating, scourging, leg-breaking and – as John Eliot Gardiner hears it in that “overture” – nails being driven through hands to the cross.