No mercy for Ivo Van Hove’s Clemenza

Von Jonathan Sutherland, 18 Januar 2016

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, am 16 Januar 2016

Mozart, La clemenza di Tito

Polish National Opera

Benjamin Bayl, Musikalische Leitung

Ivo van Hove, Regie

Jan Versweyveld, Bühnenbild

An D'Huys, Kostüme

Katarzyna Trylnik, Servilia

Ewa Vesin, Vitellia

Anna Bernacka, Annio

Anna Bonitatibus, Sesto

Charles Workman, Tito

Krzysztof Bączyk, Publio

Janine Brogt, Dramaturgie

Reinder Pols, Dramaturgie

Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki

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Jonathan Sutherland

Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.

No mercy for Ivo Van Hove’s La clemenza di Tito in Warsaw