Concert - La passion selon St Jean - Ensemble Le Songe du Roi

Continuing the series of great sacred works that are the regular feature of our June concerts, the Songe du Roi brings you a version of J.S. Bach's classic St John Passion. For this masterly work, the ensemble will be in full force, bringing together on stage a dozen instrumentalists, 4 solo singers and the 40 members of the main choir. With the aim of making the Passion narrative - sung in German by the Evangelist in the original version - as intelligible as possible, this adaptation "as close to the text as possible" opts to declaim all the recitatives in French. Actor Boris Winter, a regular performer at Le Songe du Roi, will take on this role. All the solo arias and choral parts will be performed in their original German. Surtitles will be available so that you don't lose track of the story.