Johannes-Passion

24. March 2026

Evangelist Jan Petryka
Jesus Yannick Debus
Soprano Serafina Starke
Alto Ulrike Malotta
Tenor Johan Krogius
Bass Matthias Winckhler

Conductor Florian Helgath
Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Orchestra La Scintilla

Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion BWV 245

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    In cooperation with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie

Music Direction:
Florian Helgath

Cast

Evangelist Jan Petryka


Jesus Yannick Debus

Sopran Serafina Starke

Alt Ulrike Malotta


Tenor Johan Krogius

Bass / Pilatus Matthias Winckhler

Yannick Debus

Yannick Debus studied voice at the Lübeck University of Music, the Basel Music Academy, and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Alongside his vocal studies, he studied music theory and ear training in Lübeck. During his studies, he sang at the theaters in Kiel and Lübeck, including the lead role of the Poet in L’impresario in angustie (Cimarosa). As part of the Junge Oper Schloss Weikersheim, he appeared in the summer of 2017 in the role of the Father in Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera Hänsel und Gretel. In the summer of 2018, he sang the role of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg. He was seen at the Theater Basel as the Emperor Overall in Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, as Figaro in Milhaud’s La mère coupable, and at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music as Emireno in Handel’s Ottone, re di Germania. From 2020 to 2022, he was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich, where he appeared as Kilian in Der Freischütz, as Speaker and 2nd Priest in Die Zauberflöte, as Hermann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, as Thierry in Dialogues des Carmélites, and as Pieter in Girl with a Pearl Earring. He has a close collaboration with René Jacobs, with whom he appeared as Orpheus in Telemann’s opera of the same name in Basel, and in 2022 as Apollo in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne, as Kilian and Ottokar on the CD release tour of Der Freischütz, and in Israel in Egypt. In 2022, he sang Haydn’s Creation at the Berlin Konzerthaus and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the Berlin Philharmonic.

Manon24 / 27 Sept / 3 / 7 Oct 2025 Fidelio3 / 6 / 10 / 14 / 16 May 2026 Così fan tutte3 / 7 / 9 / 12 Jul 2026 Die Fledermaus7 / 10 / 12 / 14 / 18 / 26 / 28 / 31 Dec 2025 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 10 Jan 2026 Johannes-Passion24 Mar 2026

Johan Krogius

The tenor Johan Krogius began his musical training in the boys’ choir of the Cathedral Cantores Minores in Helsinki. He later studied in Helsinki and Stockholm, won the Timo Mustakallio Singing Competition in 2021, and in the same year received first prize at the Helsinki Lied Competition. In opera, he has performed roles such as Jaquino ("Fidelio") and Pong ("Turandot") in Helsinki; First Man and Juhana in Joonas Kokkonen’s "The Last Temptations" at the Opera in Jyväskylä; Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni") at the Finnish National Opera; Kuska ("Khovanshchina") with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen in Helsinki and Stockholm; as well as Tamino ("The Magic Flute") at the Opera in Tampere and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, where he also appeared as Don Ottavio and Ismaele ("Nabucco") in 2024 and as Macduff ("Macbeth") in 2025. During the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons, he was a member of the International Opera Studio at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. There, his roles included Leukippos (Strauss’s "Daphne"), Tamino, First Armoured Man, and First Priest in "The Magic Flute," the Innkeeper and Faninal’s Majordomo ("Der Rosenkavalier"), a Trojan ("Idomeneo"), Parpignol ("La bohème"), and Borsa ("Rigoletto"). As a guest, he returned to the Berlin Staatsoper as Tybalt ("Roméo et Juliette"), the Apparition of a Young Man ("Die Frau ohne Schatten"), the First Knight of the Grail ("Parsifal"), and the Innkeeper. On the concert stage, he has performed with the Jyväskylä Sinfonia, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2024 he made his debut with Mozart’s "Requiem" at the Berlin Philharmonie.

Der Rosenkavalier21 / 26 Sept / 1 / 5 / 14 / 17 / 21 / 26 Oct 2025 Tosca28 Sept / 2 / 8 / 11 / 15 / 19 Oct 2025 Tannhäuser21 / 24 / 27 Jun / 2 / 5 / 8 / 11 Jul 2026 Carmen18 / 21 / 23 / 27 / 31 Jan 2026 Arabella14 / 18 / 22 / 25 / 28 Apr 2026 Johannes-Passion24 Mar 2026
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