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Andreas Homoki’s Rigoletto brings the Bundesliga to the Hamburg Staatsoper

By Jonathan Sutherland, 19 March 2017
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Reviewed at Hamburgische Staatsoper: Main Hall, Hamburg on 16 March 2017
Programme
Verdi, Rigoletto
Performers
Staatsoper Hamburg
Gregor Bühl, Conductor
Andreas Homoki, Director
Wolfgang Gussmann, Set Designer, Costume Designer
George Petean, Rigoletto
Hayoung Lee, Gilda
Ivan Magrì, The Duke of Mantua
Andrea Mastroni, Sparafucile
Nadezhda Karyazina, Maddalena
Renate Spingler, Giovanna
Stanislav Sergeev, Count Ceprano, Court Usher
Gabriele Rossmanith, Countess Ceprano
Sascha Kramer, Borsa
Alexander Roslavets, Monterone
Viktor Rud, Marullo
Narea Son, Page
Manfred Voss, Lighting Designer
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
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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.