Big on decibels, short on detail

Por Jonathan Sutherland, 22 septiembre 2017

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Crítica hecha desde Wiener Staatsoper, Viena el 21 septiembre 2017

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Wiener Staatsoper

Simone Young, Dirección

Boleslaw Barlog, Dirección de escena

Jürgen Rose, Diseño de escena

Gun-Brit Barkmin, Salome

Iris Vermillion, Herodias

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Herodes

Željko Lučić, Jochanaan

Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus

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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.

Salome in Vienna is big on decibels, but short on detail