Daniele Abbado’s disappointing Don Carlo in Vienna

By Jonathan Sutherland, 31 May 2016

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“Marco Armiliato wasn’t going to hold back the orchestral sound for even a quaver rest”

Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 29 May 2016

Verdi, Don Carlo(s) (In Italian)

Vienna State Opera

Marco Armiliato, Conductor

Daniele Abbado, Director

Graziano Gregori, Set Designer

Carla Teti, Costume Designer

René Pape, Filippo II

Ramón Vargas, Don Carlo

Ludovic Tézier, Rodrigo, Marchese di Posa

Alexandru Moisiuc, Il Grande Inquisitore

Anja Harteros, Elisabetta di Valois

Béatrice Uria-Monzon, La Principessa Eboli

Andrea Carroll, Una voce dal cielo

Alessandro Carletti, Lighting Designer

Boris Stetka, Director

Simona Bucci, Choreography

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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.