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Johan Botha's death casts a pall over Madama Butterfly in Vienna

By Jonathan Sutherland, 10 September 2016
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Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 8 September 2016
Programme
Puccini, Madama Butterfly
Performers
Vienna State Opera
Philippe Auguin, Conductor
Josef Gielen, Director
Tsugouharu Foujita, Set Designer
Kristine Opolais, Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
Piero Pretti, Pinkerton
Boaz Daniel, Sharpless
Bongiwe Nakani, Suzuki
Herwig Pecoraro, Goro
Alexandru Moisiuc, The Bonze
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
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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.