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.

Johan Krogius began his musical training in the boys’ choir of the Cathedral Choir Cantores Minores in Helsinki. He later studied at the Conservatory and at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, as well as at the Stockholm University of the Arts. In 2021, he won the Timo Mustakallio Singing Competition and was also awarded first prize at the Helsinki Lied Competition. On the opera stage, he has appeared in roles such as Jaquino (Fidelio), Pong (Turandot) in Helsinki, First Man in Joonas Kokkonen’s The Last Temptations at the Jyväskylä Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, and as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at Tampere Opera, as well as recently at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, where in 2024 he also sang Don Ottavio and Ismaele (Nabucco). During the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons, he was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where he appeared in roles including Leukippos in Strauss’s Daphne, Streshnev in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, Tamino, First Armored Man and First Priest (Die Zauberflöte), as well as the Innkeeper and the Major-Domo (Der Rosenkavalier), Trojan (Idomeneo), Parpignol (La bohème) and Borsa (Rigoletto). In the summer of 2024, he also performed as Kuzka (Khovanshchina) with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen in Helsinki and Stockholm. In the 2024/25 season, he made his debut as Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette), the Young Man’s Apparition (Die Frau ohne Schatten) and First Knight of the Grail (Parsifal) at the Staatsoper Berlin.