Trinks’ cut and paste Siegfried far from idyllic

By Jonathan Sutherland, 11 December 2017

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“This might be fine for the city of Freud, but the world of Wagner is not so hypothetical”

Reviewed at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 9 December 2017

Wagner, Siegfried

Constantin Trinks, Conductor

Tatjana Gürbaca, Director

Henrik Ahr, Set Designer

Daniel Brenna, Tenor

Liene Kinča, Soprano

Štefan Kocán, Bass

Ingela Brimberg, Soprano

Aris Argiris, Baritone

Marcel Beekman, Tenor

Daniel Johansson, Tenor

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

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****1

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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.

Constantin Trinks’ cut and paste Siegfried is far from idyllic at the Theater an der Wien