The Foundation has organized a number of musical drama performances with an aim of bringing the well-known old genre of a mystery play, or liturgical drama, closer to the Russian public.
In the years 2002 and 2007 at Christmas festive plays were staged under the title of "The Christmas Mystery" with the participation of musical, dance and theatre troops.
In February 2008 the première of a musical mystery "The Icon-Painter" took place. The music for the play belongs to Anna Vetlugina, a talented young Russian composer.
In April 2008, on the threshold of the Triduum Paschale, “The Art of Goodness” presented to the audience the famous “St. John’s Passion” by J. S. Bach in the form of a liturgical drama evoking the tradition of the medieval mystery. One of the goals of the project was to show the “Passion” in its natural sound and environment, that is, in a church, and performed on authentic instruments, which was accomplished by the Russian orchestra “Pratum Integrum”. The “Passion” involved a troop consisting of both Russian and German singers under the direction of maestro Winfried Boenig, Professor of the High School of Music in Cologne and the Musical Director in the Cologne Cathedral, who had been invited as the conductor of the performance. The fact that made that performance of “The Passion” particularly different from the other concert performances was the stage impersonation of the action. The soloists and the plastique troop were dressed in symbolic costumes, and the action took place on the stage built specially for the play. The goal of this genre of performance going back to the dramas and mystery plays of the Middle Ages was to help the faithful experience the events of the Holy Week in the deepest and the most fruitful way.
In April 2009 "St. John's Passion" by Georg Gebel Jr. was performed in the Cathedal by a mixed Russian and German troop under the direction of Prof. Boenig. It is a work of a 18th-century German composer, whose manuscript had been kept in the archives unknown for over two centuries. Having been performed some years ago in Germany, this "Passion" was praized by the critics as "the best Passion but for the Bach's".