Nothing false about La finta giardiniera in Baden-Baden

By Jonathan Sutherland, 28 March 2018

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Reviewed at Theater, Baden-Baden on 25 March 2018

Mozart, La finta giardiniera

Simon Rössler, Conductor

Christian Carsten, Director

Sebastian Hannak, Set Designer

Nora Lau, Costume Designer

Julie Erhart, Arminda

Victoria Kunze, Sandrina

Rubén Olivares Jofré, Belfiore

Oliver Jacobs, Don Anchise

Clara-Sophie Bertram, Ramiro

Martin Peters, Roberto

Nadine Kettler, Serpetta

Martin Mutschler, Dramaturgy

Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker

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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.