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Happy Spring, everyone!

This season holds all the promise of a budding flower.  A concert in my hometown with the Baton Rouge Symphony, an appearance at the Cincinnatti May Festival in an all-Mozart concert, and the role of Konstanze at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.  Yes that means of plenty of Mozart over the next few months!

Lucky me!

After that I delve into some exciting French Baroque opera, in a new production of Rameau’s LES INDES GALANTES with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.  I’m so excited to be working with amazing conductors this season, Tim Muffitt, Ivor Bolton and James Conlon.

I’ll be smiling a lot!  

 

Upcoming Performances

Great Mass in C Minor

Baton Rouge Symphony
Soprano

BRSO concludes its season of Explorers and Discoveries in a program of legendary proportion highlighting the works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven — three of the most significant and ground-breaking composers that have left an indelible mark on music for all time. Baton Rouge native and internationally-acclaimed soprano, Lisette Oropesa returns to Baton Rouge to perform Mozart’s C minor Mass with the BRSO Chorus.

April 14
Baton Rouge River Center
Baton Rouge, LA

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Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Bayerische Staatsoper
Konstanze

European in the hands of fundamentalist Muslims.Western rescue mission goes awry. Execution of the task force decided. But: vengeance is nothing - forgiveness everything!Unfortunately, few the size of it. Mozart's contribution to the "clash of civilizations" packed into a not to be underestimated Singspiel.

April 26, 30
Bayerische Staatsoper
Munich, GE

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Great Mass in C minor

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Soprano

The 2016 May Festival kicks off on Friday, May 20 at Cincinnati Music Hall with Mozart’s exquisite “Great” Mass in C minor. With its grandiose choruses, pristine virtuosity for soloists and soaring expressiveness, this is one of the composer’s most-beloved works. Also on the program are Mozart’s Ave verum corpus and Exsultate jubilate. Soprano Lisette Oropesa, mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong, tenor Ben Bliss and baritone John Cheek bring their artistry to these masterpieces along with the May Festival Chorus and CSO.

May 20
Cincinnati Music Hall
Cincinnati, OH

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Les Indes galantes

Bayerische Staatsoper
Hébé and Zima

Recollecting the origins of French music theatre within a culture of dance, Rameau plays with a genre which was enjoying a high degree of popularity among his contemporaries, but which today classifies as terra incognita, ripe for rediscovery: the Opéra-ballet. Using a balanced mix of music, drama and dance, and with multiple long-distance location changes, the focus alternates between four couples and their handling of fidelity, trust and jealousy - variations on the increasingly pertinent question: How do we love right?

July 24, 26, 27, 29, 30
Prinzregententheater
München, GE

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Features

225 Magazine Interview

Interview

I had a great time talking with 225 Baton Rouge for my upcoming Mozart C Minor Mass concert! Here is an exerpt from our interview!

How does it feel to do a homecoming show like this one with BRSO?

It’s really exciting! I haven’t sung with Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra ever. I sang in choruses that worked with BRSO when I was really young, and I was in band growing up, so I’ve probably worked with some of the members, so that’s about the association I’ve had with BRSO. It’s my first time being invited to do something like this. It does feel like coming home, but it also feels like a first time.

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Reviews

Da Ping Luo

Review: Lisette Oropesa Scales Down Her Voice but Not Her Presence • Jan. 14, 2016

Ms. Oropesa and Mr. Churchwell brought uncommon freshness to this music, which somehow hovers on the divide between breathless desire and spiritual calm.

Anthony Tommasini • New York Times
Parco della Musica, tris di compositori e di opere. Al violino Michael Barenboim per la direzione di • Jan. 29, 2016

Eccellenti e straordinari tutti gli interpreti, dall’ineguagliabile Pappano e dai due solisti, il baritono Vito Priante e, soprattutto, il soprano Lisette Oropesa

Sergio Prodigy • Focus Italy
Markus Stenz leads BSO, UM Concert Choir, stellar soloists in 'German Requiem' • March 9, 2016

Making her debut with the orchestra, soprano Lisette Oropesa spun out a radiant sound that communicated every hopeful, calming word in the fifth movement.

Tim Smith • Baltimore Sun
Phila. Orchestra delivers a mighty 'Symphony of a Thousand' at Verizon Hall • March 11, 2016

A special word for Lisette Oropesa, whose character, Mater Gloriosa, is supposed to appear out of the sky. The top tier of Verizon Hall was perfectly suitable, with her in a white gown and voice sounding, well, gloriosa.

David Patrick Sterns • The Inquirer

Da Ping Luo

Reflections

Over the past few weeks, I have felt so inspired singing the stunning music that I was blessed to perform all season. The Brahms Requiem, the Bach St. Matthew Passion, and especially, the sold-out performances of Mahler’s 8th Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra, outstanding soloists, choruses, and Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

This is a time of year when my reflections turn toward the future more than toward the past.  There is great promise in this time of year, and I feel that energy flowing through everything.  As the flowers are blooming, so are my hopes for what is yet to come. 

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