The Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ) was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, its musical director, with a view to introducing Japanese audiences to performances of baroque masterpieces played on period instruments. As the name of the ensemble indicates, their main interest lies in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporary German composers, such as Buxtehude, Schütz, Schein and Böhm.
The BCJ comprises a baroque orchestra and choir, and its main activities include an annual series of Bach Cantatas, as well as a large number of instrumental programmes.
The director Masaaki Suzuki has gained an exceptional reputation, not only as an organ and clavicymbal soloist, but also as a conductor to the most renowned soloists and European ensembles.
This show has been brought to us thanks to a Collaboration Agreement between the Bilbao 700 Foundation and the Arriaga.
The number to purchase by phone is (34) 944 310 310 You can buy the tickets with your credit card and collect the tickets in the vending machine or the multi-service teller machines of bbk, using the card with which you brought the tickets. You can also collect your tickets in the theatre box office.
Tickets can be bought in advance at the theatre box office on: Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, from 11.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. and 5.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., and on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 11.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. and 5.00 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. On performance days, tickets can be bought up to the performance start time.
The Arriaga Theatre is closely linked to the city of Bilbao. Although Bilbao’s residents would attend theatrical performances before, the city had a place used solely for dramatic performances only in 1799. In that year, a group of neighbours commissioned the construction of a theatre on Ronda St.
