Bach/Höft queerPassion
22 August 2025/ Belgium / Antwerp
Antwerp Opera - queerPassion comes right from our hearts. We bring inclusion and diversity to three centres of the music sector:
Wiener Konzerthaus Sat. 07. June, 2025, 19:00
Bachfest Leipzig Fr. 13. June, 2025, 17:00
Opera Antwerp's official season opening on 22. August, 2025, 20:00
ĀRT HOUSE 17 proudly joins with local queer community choirs who will sing their heart out in the 11 chorals of our version of Bach's St John's Passion BWV 245* that now has a new libretto by author Thomas Höft. Leaving out all religious connotation we tell four stories of queer suffering from the time of Bach and from today.
1721, Lagrantinus Rosenstengel was executed in Halberstadt, because he was - as a biological woman - married to a woman. In the 1730s, the pogroms in Utrecht cost over 100 gay people their lives. But we don't need to look so far, neither in time nor space.
Thank you all for taking the time and living this moment with us.
Markus Schäfer (Narrator, Tenor)
Susanne Elmark (Soprano)
Yosemeh Adjei (Countertenor)
Julian Habermann (Tenor)
Dietrich Henschel (Baritone)
Regenbogenchor Graz - Zeljka Hrestak
Fräulein A. Kapella & Die Tollkirschen - Conny Schäfer
Antwerp Queer Choir - Isaak Duerinck
concert master: Lina Tur Bonet (Vienna, Leipzig)
concert master: Alfia Bakieva (Antwerp)
musical director: Michael Hell (harpsichord)
libretto: Thomas Höft
project leader: Georg Kroneis - ĀRT HOUSE
project partners: Originalklang e.V. & vzw Majestic
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Kofinanziert durch das EU-Programm „Creative Europe (2021-2027)“ sowie durch das Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport.
Wiener Konzerthaus Sat. 07. June, 2025, 19:00
Bachfest Leipzig Fr. 13. June, 2025, 17:00
Opera Antwerp's official season opening on 22. August, 2025, 20:00
ĀRT HOUSE 17 proudly joins with local queer community choirs who will sing their heart out in the 11 chorals of our version of Bach's St John's Passion BWV 245* that now has a new libretto by author Thomas Höft. Leaving out all religious connotation we tell four stories of queer suffering from the time of Bach and from today.
1721, Lagrantinus Rosenstengel was executed in Halberstadt, because he was - as a biological woman - married to a woman. In the 1730s, the pogroms in Utrecht cost over 100 gay people their lives. But we don't need to look so far, neither in time nor space.
Thank you all for taking the time and living this moment with us.
Markus Schäfer (Narrator, Tenor)
Susanne Elmark (Soprano)
Yosemeh Adjei (Countertenor)
Julian Habermann (Tenor)
Dietrich Henschel (Baritone)
Regenbogenchor Graz - Zeljka Hrestak
Fräulein A. Kapella & Die Tollkirschen - Conny Schäfer
Antwerp Queer Choir - Isaak Duerinck
concert master: Lina Tur Bonet (Vienna, Leipzig)
concert master: Alfia Bakieva (Antwerp)
musical director: Michael Hell (harpsichord)
libretto: Thomas Höft
project leader: Georg Kroneis - ĀRT HOUSE
project partners: Originalklang e.V. & vzw Majestic
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Kofinanziert durch das EU-Programm „Creative Europe (2021-2027)“ sowie durch das Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport.
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