Johannes-Passion

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.

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.