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In Salzburg, how do you solve a problem like two Marias? West Side Story at the Whitsun Festival

By Jonathan Sutherland, 15 May 2016
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Reviewed at Felsenreitschule, Salzburg on 13 May 2016
Programme
Bernstein, West Side Story
Performers
Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor
Philip Wm. McKinley, Director
George Tsypin, Set Designer
Ann Hould-Ward, Costume Designer
Cecilia Bartoli, Maria
Michelle Veintimilla, Maria
Karen Olivo, Anita
Norman Reinhardt, Tony
Dan Burton, Riff
George Akram, Bernardo
Liam Steel, Choreography
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
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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.