La Currentzis di Tito: a Mozartian mishap in Wrocław

By Jonathan Sutherland, 19 September 2017

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Reviewed at Opera Wrocławska, Wrocław on 17 September 2017

Mozart, La clemenza di Tito

Teodor Currentzis, Conductor

Anna Lucia Richter, Servilia

Karina Gauvin, Vitellia

Jeanine De Bique, Annio

Maximilian Schmitt, Tito

Sir Willard White, Publio

Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Sesto

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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.