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

By Jonathan Sutherland, 18 January 2016
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Reviewed at Teatr Wielki, Warsaw on 16 January 2016
Programme
Mozart, La clemenza di Tito
Performers
Polish National Opera
Benjamin Bayl, Conductor
Ivo van Hove, Director
Jan Versweyveld, Set Designer
An D'Huys, Costume Designer
Katarzyna Trylnik, Servilia
Ewa Vesin, Vitellia
Anna Bernacka, Annio
Anna Bonitatibus, Sesto
Charles Workman, Tito
Krzysztof Bączyk, Publio
Janine Brogt, Dramaturgy
Reinder Pols, Dramaturgy
Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki
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Jonathan Sutherland
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.