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David Marton turns Don Giovanni into a wrist-slashing wimp in Lyon

By Jonathan Sutherland, 02 July 2018
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“Definitely no pheasant on the menu for Leporello to snaffle.”
Reviewed at Opéra Nouvel, Lyon on 25 June 2018
Programme
Mozart, Don Giovanni
Performers
Opéra de Lyon
Stefano Montanari, Conductor
David Marton, Director
Christian Friedländer, Set Designer
Pola Kardum, Costume Designer
Eleonora Buratto, Donna Anna
Antoinette Dennefeld, Donna Elvira
Yuka Yanagihara, Zerlina
Philippe Sly, Don Giovanni
Kyle Ketelsen, Leporello
Julien Behr, Don Ottavio
Chœurs de l'Opéra de Lyon
Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon
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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.