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Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s Elektra a disappointment in Vienna

By Jonathan Sutherland, 07 December 2017
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Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 5 December 2017
Programme
Strauss R., Elektra
Performers
Vienna State Opera
Ingo Metzmacher, Conductor
Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Director
Rolf Glittenberg, Set Designer
Marianne Glittenberg, Costume Designer
Elena Pankratova, Elektra
Waltraud Meier, Klytaemnestra
Gun-Brit Barkmin, Chrysothemis
Johan Reuter, Orest
Norbert Ernst, Aegisth
Monika Bohinec, Maid 1
Margarita Gritskova, Maid 2
Ulrike Helzel, Maid 3
Caroline Wenborne, Maid 4
Ildikó Raimondi, Maid 5
Donna Ellen, Overseer
Simina Ivan, Confidante
Zoryana Kushpler, Trainbearer
Benedikt Kobel, Young Servant
Marcus Pelz, Old Servant
Ryan Speedo Green, Orest's Tutor
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Andreas Grüter, Lighting Designer
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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.