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Dido and Aeneas enjoys a meticulous musical makeover from Christian Frattima in Riga

By Jonathan Sutherland, 11 July 2017
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“Elīna Šimkus sang a musically mellifluous and dramatically convincing Carthaginian queen”
Reviewed at St Peter’s Church, Riga on 7 July 2017
Programme
Purcell, Dido and Aeneas
Performers
Coin du Roi
Christian Frattima, Conductor
Marco Bellussi, Director
Elīna Šimkus, Dido
Giulio Alvise Caselli, Aeneas
Anna Chierichetti, Belinda
Milena Storti, Sorceress
Riccardo Botta, Sailor
Orchestra Coin du Roi
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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.