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Tenor

Ian Bostridge

Evangelist

Soprano

Ha Young Lee

Christina Gansch

Contralto

Dorottya Láng

Mezzo-soprano

Bernard Richter

Bass

Philippe Sly

Jesus

Conductor

Kent Nagano

Stage director

Romeo Castellucci

Costume designer

Set designer

Dramaturge

Piersandra Di Matteo

Johannes Blum

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Martin Steidler

Staatsoper Hamburg

Matthäus Passion, BWV 244 -  (St. Matthew Passion)

Hamburg

Germany

The production was available as video-on-demand from April 6, 2020 to July 8, 2020.

Romeo Castellucci's art runs through a tension that becomes effective in the process of making his pictures and that cuts into our knowledge of the unconscious. She goes to the heart of the neglect of the gaze that characterizes our time. For Castellucci, theater is “the occasion to think, to think about seeing, to see seeing; becoming aware of being confronted as a spectator with problems that were deliberately designed just for him – it is the discussion of what it means to be a spectator.” The latter is mercilessly confronted with images that question who want to be seen, who need to be seen. The attraction of these images reaches the core of the nervous system,

A production of the Hamburg State Opera in cooperation with the Deichtorhallen Hamburg as part of the Hamburg International Music Festival 2016. With the kind support of Commerzbank Hamburg.

Recording from April 21, 2016 from the Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Concept, staging, stage, costumes and light: Romeo Castellucci
Artistic collaboration: Silvia Costa
Collaboration on stage design: Maroussia Vaes
Dramaturgy: Piersandra di Matteo, Johannes Blum
Choir: Martin Steidler
Sound design: Holger Schwark

Conductor: Kent Nagano
Evangelist: Ian Bostridge
Soprano 1: Hayoung Lee
Soprano 2: Christina Gansch
Alto: Dorottya Láng
Tenor: Bernard Richter
Jesus / Bass: Philippe Sly
Orchestra: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra
Choir: Audi Jugendchorakademie

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