Very variable Vespers at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Poland

By Jonathan Sutherland, 11 September 2017

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Reviewed at University Church, Wrocław on 9 September 2017

Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine "Vespers of the Blessed Virgin" (1610)

Jean Tubéry, Conductor

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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.