Fauré Requiem
Music by
Gabriel Fauré
Soloists
Soprano | Lisette Oropesa | |
Baritone | Vito Priante | |
Violin | Michael Barenboim |
Antonio Pappano
About
Another dive in the twentieth century music for Antonio Pappano, this time with particular regard to the twentieth century.According to the famous definition of the historian Eric Hobsbawm, the twentieth century can be considered the "short century" for the incredible density of events that characterized it: the two of world wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and through a series of the political, technological and social changes. Arts and music have obviously done a counterpoint to these changes, often emphasizing the crucial moments. The Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Debussy, with its new formal and sound, opens the stage in the history of French music where research timbre and harmonic sensibility become the cardinal points of his aesthetic and that, oscillating between impressionism and symbolism, will see the birth of the great masterpieces. No exception with respect to these assumptions, the Requiem by Fauré, of all the most intimate and discreet (there is in fact absent the Dies Irae ), page sincere and intense spirituality diluted sounds muffled and precious and simple melodies that celebrate the dismissal by life with serene resignation. The Violin Concerto Schönberg belongs to the last creative phase of the Austrian composer looking for a new perspective in relation to strict twelve-tone technique, which is realized through the adoption of new and freer composition formulas. Michael Barenboim, son of the more famous Daniel, in his debut in Santa Cecilia, is the soloist for this concert he performed with the major orchestras of the world making it one of his specialties.
Program:
“Il secolo breve”
Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Schönberg Concerto per violino
Fauré Requiem
Reviews
Parco della Musica, tris di compositori e di opere. Al violino Michael Barenboim per la direzione di
Eccellenti e straordinari tutti gli interpreti, dall’ineguagliabile Pappano e dai due solisti, il baritono Vito Priante e, soprattutto, il soprano Lisette OropesaAll the performers were excellent and extraordinary, from the unparalleled Pappano and the two soloists, baritone Vito Priante and, above all, soprano Lisette Oropesa.— Sergio Prodigo • Focus Italy
Performance History
Lisette has given 124 performances as Soprano.
2025
Festspielhaus Baden Baden
NBS Japan Performing Arts Foundation
Opéra National de Paris
Staatsoper Hamburg
Teatro di San Carlo2024
ABAO Opera Bilbao
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Carnegie Hall
Théâtre des Champs Elysées
Festival Cap Rocat
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera
Carnegie Hall
Musikverein Graz
Teatro alla Scala
Royal Opera House
Hungarian State Opera
Festspielhaus Baden Baden
Gran Theatre del Liceu
Teatro alla Scala
Théâtre des Champs Elysées
Gstaad New Year Music Festival2023
New Orleans Opera
Clarksville Community Concert Association
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Guild Hall
Pro Música Águilas
Savonlinna Opera Festival
Carnegie Hall
Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg2022
NBS Japan Performing Arts Foundation
Arena di Verona
Teatro Real
Wiener Staatsoper
Les Arts2021
Ravello Festival
Teatro de la Maestranza
Teatro de la Zarzuela
Teatro Regio di Parma
Nachtigall Artists
BellininFest
Festival Della Valle D'itria
Napa Valley Festival
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
ABAO Opera Bilbao2020
Teatro alla Scala
Royal Opera House
Arena di Verona
Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera
Hamlen-Palm Series
Gstaad New Year Music Festival2019
New Orleans Friends of Music
Richard Tucker Music Foundation
Grandes Vozes
LSU Opera
The Maestro Foundation2018
Rossini Opera Festival
Tucson Desert Song Festival2017
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Musique et Vin
Vocal Arts DC2016
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Classical Tahoe
Bayerische Staatsoper
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra
Strasbourg Philharmonic
Philadelphia Orchestra
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Park Avenue Armory2015
Skaneateles Festival
Houston Symphony
Chicago Bach Project2014
Credo Chamber Music
Chicago Bach Project
New Choral Society2013
Pittsburgh Symphony
LSU Opera
The Opera San Antonio
Arizona Opera2012
Mostly Mozart
Musique et Vin
Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society
George London Foundation
Chicago Symphony Orchestra2011
New Choral Society2010
Richard Tucker Music Foundation
Cleveland Orchestra2009
Metropolitan Opera2008
Metropolitan Opera
Houston Symphony2005
Metropolitan Opera