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Chief conductor Gedschold was educated in Leipzig and later served as music director at the city's famous opera house. Leipzig was also Bach's hometown for 27 years – it was here that he composed the St. John Passion and the other famous religious works. Gedschold is closely associated with Bach's Leipzig works, of which he is a masterful interpreter. In just a few years, he has already conducted his Danish orchestra in Bach's  Christmas Oratorio ,  St. Matthew Passion and  B minor Mass . Now he completes the list with  the St. John Passion together with four internationally sought-after singing soloists and Holmen's Cantori.

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The Passion of St. John

Church of Holmen

JS Bach: St. John Passion

Experience the sound of Michelangelo's works when the exhibition is filled with music.

 

In connection with SMK's major spring exhibition Michelangelo Imperfect , Concerto Copenhagen sheds light on a lesser-known side of Michelangelo: his poems, set to music. Michelangelo wrote more than 300 poems – intense, sensitive and deeply human – about the body, the soul and about loving and longing.

Michelangelo x Concerto Copenhagen

Statens Museum for Kunst

The main character Jacob and his family live close to the sea under an old tree. One day Jacob catches a very special fish. It looks at him with its big eyes and pleads with him: "Throw me back into the water and I will fulfill your wishes." Jacob puts the fish back into the water, and the fish does as it promised. But for every wish that comes true, Jacob and his family just want more… and more wants more. Until the fish suddenly looks completely weak and pale. And isn't it also as if the sea is getting more and more agitated?

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Caroline Olesen

Events

Past events

Mar 27, 2026

The Passion of St. John · Copenhagen Phil

Mar 27, 2026

JS Bach: St. John Passion · Holmens Kirke

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in St. John Passion by Bach

Holmens Kirke

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