Melbourne Bach Choir St Matthew Passion

The Melbourne Bach Choir and Melbourne Baroque Orchestra conducted by Rick Prakhoff present the St Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach, sung in German. Two adult choirs, a children’s choir, two orchestras and outstanding Australian soloists will fill Melbourne Recital Centre with this extraordinary, dramatic telling of the Passion story, written to be performed on Good Friday.

The Choir’s 2022 performance of this work received a five minute ovation with The Age saying ‘a sterling interpretation of the long Bach Passion’ and Classic Melbourne claiming this ‘concert was a triumph.’

Andrew Goodwin again brings his beautiful high tenor to the role of the Evangelist. Adrian Tamburini will sing Christus, together with aria soloists Lorina Gore, Sally-Anne Russell, Henry Choo, Simon Meadows and Christopher Hillier.

From the darkly evocative orchestral opening Bach creates a narrative more compelling than that of any opera of the period. Sung in German, this extraordinary musical journey is the perfect reflection for Good Friday.