Kupfer’s Fidelio confuses in Berlin

By Jonathan Sutherland, 11 October 2016

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“Austrian tenor Andreas Schager sang the punishing role of Florestan with extraordinary power”

Reviewed at Schillertheater: Großer Saal, Berlin on 9 October 2016

Beethoven, Fidelio

Staatsoper Berlin

Daniel Barenboim, Conductor

Harry Kupfer, Director

Hans Schavernoch, Set Designer

Yan Tax, Costume Designer

Camilla Nylund, Leonore

Evelin Novak, Marzelline

Andreas Schager, Florestan

Florian Hoffmann, Jaquino

Falk Struckmann, Don Pizarro

Roman Trekel, Don Fernando

Matti Salminen, Rocco

Olaf Freese, Lighting Designer

Martin Wright, Choirmaster / chorus director

Detlef Giese, Dramaturgy

Staatskapelle Berlin

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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.

Harry Kupfer’s Fidelio confuses at the Staatsoper Berlin