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St Matthew Passion

Composer:
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, English translation compiled and edited by Paul Goodwin, who also conducts
Management:
National Theatre
Cast:
Sally Bruce-Payne, Ruby Hughes, Benjamin Hulett, James Laing, Andrew Staples, Mark Stone
Director:
Jonathan Miller
Sound:
Mike Walker

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First produced nearly 20 years ago, Jonathan Miller's jeans and T-shirt staging of Bach's St Matthew Passion, with conductor Paul Goodwin (who compiled the English translation), comes to the National Theatre for the first time. Bach certainly never intended his great Passion setting to be staged - Goodwin argues that the production has evolved out of the vibrant music, opera in all but name. A major benefit is to lift the score out of the over-reverential piety in which many church and concert hall performances are mired. Forced to abandon the comfort-blanket of printed pages, the singers engage fully with the audience, bringing the music vividly to life...

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