23.12.2021

MARIE-SOPHIE POLLAK with Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Hamburg

John Neumeier choreographed the first three parts of the Christmas Oratorio as a complete ballet in 2007. Six years later, in 2013, he continues his work changing parts of the earlier version and combining them with a newly created second part to the last three cantatas of the oratorio to create a new ballet. For the choreographer, it is important to emphasise that two different but equally valued ballets exist alongside each other. "The opus number of the ballet set to the first three parts is different to that of the entire Christmas Oratorio. What we are now presenting is in fact the premiere of a new work that comprises all six Bach cantatas", adds John Neumeier.

Under the baton of Gianluca Capuano, Marie-Sophie Pollak will once again take on the soprano part on the dates scheduled until New Year's Day.

Cast 

Marie-Sophie Pollak, soprano
Katja Pieweck, altus
Manuel Günther, tenor
Benjamin Appl, bass

Gianluca Capuano, coductor
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper