Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion,” which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, doesn’t so much begin as erupt. In the swirling, agitated strings and piercing cries of oboes, we instantly ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The American Classical Orchestra continues its 40th anniversary season with a ...

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 ...

T.S. Eliot — not to mention Martin Luther and J.S. Bach — might have scolded the Dallas Bach Society for breeding passions out of season. Indeed, it seemed odd to schedule Bach’s St. John Passion, ...

From Salzburg to Dijon to Paris, a German choreographer adds striking dance to the sacred oratorio. By A.J. Goldmann The first thing we hear in Sasha Waltz’s production of the “St. John Passion” ...

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 ...

Violence against LGBTQ+ people and well as war and displacement in Gaza inspire two adaptations of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's works on the story of Christ."QueerPassion," by author, director and ...

Stephen Layton conducted both Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for this stirring afternoon, in which the opening movement sounded like a brewing storm. At first it sounded ...

An hour-long hellfire sermon between the two parts? That would count as a proper “period” performance. Instead, we had a small squad of powerful soloists amid – or at the edge of – the practised and ...

Sacred music lay at the heart of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative life. His vast output includes hundreds of choral works written for the principal churches in Leipzig, Germany, where he oversaw ...