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Mariusz Treliński turns La traviata into a tawdry travesty in Warsaw

By Jonathan Sutherland, 10 April 2017
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Reviewed at Teatr Wielki, Warsaw on 7 April 2017
Programme
Verdi, La traviata
Performers
Polish National Opera
Andriy Yurkevych, Conductor
Mariusz Treliński, Director
Boris Kudlička, Set Designer
Gosia Baczyńska, Costume Designer
Alketa Cela, Violetta Valéry
Leonardo Capalbo, Alfredo Germont
Carlos Almaguer, Giorgio Germont
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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.