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🌻 Summer Newsletter 😎
Exciting announcements for Italy, UK, and Switzerland
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A Season of Hope
This summer I’m diving into a sea of new repertoire! I have been hard at work preparing 3 new roles, as well as a myriad of Zarzuela arias, opera arias, and recital programs.
First up, July 16th, I’m opening the Napa Valley Festival in a recital of arias and art songs, with Spanish and French flair! In collaboration with pianist Curt Pajer, I’m particularly excited to visit this amazing region, because wine is a great love of mine!
I am especially delighted to bring two bel canto concerts with orchestra to southern Italy this August 2nd and 6th. The first concert is directed by Corrado Rovaris and is a mix of bel canto, French, and Zarzuela arias. The second is an all-Bellini program, featuring arias from I Puritani, La sonnambula, La straniera, and more!
Speaking of Bellini, it is a dream come true to debut as Elvira in I PURITANI, in concert in Gstaad on August 28th.
On September 13th, the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden will open its doors for the 2021-22 season with a new production of RIGOLETTO! I cannot wait to sing Gilda, one of my favorite roles, in a production by Oliver Mears, opposite Carlos Alvarez, and conducted by the wonderful Maestro Antonio Pappano!
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Upcoming Performances
Napa Valley Festival Opening Night
Napa Valley Festival
Soprano
Lisette performs to a sold-out crowd at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena, California. A recital with Curtis Pajer at the piano, Lisette will perform famous melodies by Rossini, Verdi, Mozart, Fauré, Puccini, Massenet, Bizet and Donizetti.
July 16
Charles Krug Winery
St. Helena, CA
Concerto del Belcanto
Festival della Valle d'Itria
Soprano
Her first time appearing in southern Italy, Lisette will perform a selection of Belcanto pieces as well as Zarzuela music with Corrado Rovaris conducting the Orchestra of the Petruzzelli Theater.
August 02
Palazzo Ducale
Martina Franca, TA
I Puritani - Highlights
Gstaad Festival
Elvira
Lisette performs her first I Puritani in a "highlights" version in Switzerland. This 2-hour version of the concert ensures that covid related guidelines can be adhered to.
August 28
Gstaad Festival
Gstaad, CH
Rigoletto
Royal Opera House
Gilda
Lisette opens the season at the Royal Opera House in a brand new version of Rigoletto directed by Oliver Mears.
September 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 27, 29
Royal Opera House
London, UK
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Features
Spain Recital Tour
Announcement
Coming off of a major success in recital with Ruben Fernández Aguirre in Bilbao, Ruben and Lisette return to the recital stage in three other cities in Spain. Their program includes various bel canto pieces as well as Zarzuela and Cuban music.
Teatro de la Zarzuela - Madrid, ES - Monday, December 13, 2021
Teatro de la Maestranza - Sevilla, ES - Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia - Valencia, ES - Saturday, March 5, 2022
Announcing the full tour of Handel's Theodora
Announcement
Coming off of the release of widely acclaimed release Ombra Compagna, Lisette returns to perform with the Il Pomo D'Oro orchestra as the title of Theodora in Handel's Theodora. Joined by her colleagues, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, John Chest, and Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, this is a five-stop tour of Europe to perform this piece under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev.
The five-country tour kicks off in Vienna, then to Milan at the famed Teatro alla Scala, Paris, Luxembourg, and the last performance will be in Essen, Germany.
November 18th, 2021 - Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria
November 20th, 2021 - Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy
November 22nd, 2021 - Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, France
November 24th, 2021 - Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxembourg
November 26th, 2021 - Alfried Krupp Saal, Essen, Germany
Interview - The Opera Queen
Interview
Thank you so much to Catherine Kustanczy for interviewing me about my CD, Ombra Compagna, and other great topics!
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Lisette Oropesa, Cuban from United States of origin, is the incarnation of Violetta. Magnificent voice, totally related to character, she is free to move, to dance. Her Violetta is desperate, carnival, giant. The lover to which dedicates that "love me Alfredo", which moves the listener to tears.
- Fabiana Dallavalle • Messaggero Veneto
Listening to such wisdom in outlining the character of Germont is a rarity that does not, however, overshadow the admiration for Lisette Oropesa's Violetta. She sings well, she never forces the emission, which sounds natural, ductile, capable of expressing sincere participation and a personal heartbeat even in the pressure suggested by Gatti. Indeed, the very fact that there is no room for effects and habits, that everything dries up, highlights the initial fragility, that nervous vibration which then becomes more and more intense, aware, determined and painful even in acting, frank and effective. The frenzy of her excesses is followed by a sincere transport without artifice, while the make-up, the lights and the photography clearly highlight the expressions on her face, one with the music.
- Roberta Pedrotti • L'ape musicale
On Lisette Oropesa’s new album, “Ombra Compagna,” the thirty-seven-year-old soprano demonstrates that she has the natural elasticity, warm timbre, and altitudinous notes to match this repertoire. Take the high E in “Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!”: Oropesa floats up to it with the weightlessness of a dandelion seed climbing a breeze, her voice spinning freely the entire time, as the conductor Antonello Manacorda reduces the players of Il Pomo d’Oro to a whisper. Surely one of the finest technicians of her generation, Oropesa makes these pieces sound heartfelt instead of merely hard to sing.
- Oussama Zahr • The New Yorker
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Reflections
Hope is the word for me this summer. I think we’ve all become so accustomed to last minute cancelations and shut downs, and unexpected complications, that nothing seems set in stone for the near future any more. It’s a fearful, dare I say dread-full place to be in, even as I see the shining lights of my beloved theatres flicker on once more. I’m reminded of how fragile our life and work is.
I have missed you so much, even though we have connected via the internet platforms that we are lucky to have…there is nothing that comes close to a live performance in the opera house. And so I am filled with hope that next season, we all can start and finish strong, with a renewed sense of gratitude and appreciation for our most loved, irreplaceable art form.
Let’s sing, let’s listen, and let’s hold each other close once more.
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