Soprano | Lisette Oropesa | |
Baritone | Luca Salsi |
Lisette Oropesa and Luca Salsi come to Japan to present their greatest arias and duets in a series of two concerts in Tokyo!
Many of the Japanese opera fans should still clearly remember the stunning performances by the great Italian baritone Luca Salsi in 2014 in the title role of Nabucco with the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on their Japan tour led by Riccardo Muti. Luca Salsi is now one of the most sought-after baritones and sings for significant opera companies across the world.
In the two Duo Concerts in Tokyo, Salsi sings with soprano Lisette Oropesa, one of the most in-demand lyric coloraturas today, who performs leading roles regularly at the most important opera houses around the world following her great success as Suzanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera in 2007. The Duo Concerts will be her long-awaited Japan debut. The sumptuous programs performed by the two operatic stars promise you exceptional soirées.
Friday 23 September 2022, 15:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Lisette Oropesa, Soprano (Japan Debut)
Luca Salsi, Baritone
Francesco Lanzilotta, Conductor
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Scheduled program (as of 25 March 2022)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Merci, jeunes amies" from Les Vêpres siciliennes (Oropesa)
"Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" from Rigoletto (Salsi)
"Ah, fors'é lui...Sempre libera" from La traviata (Oropesa)
"Di Provenza il mar, il suol" from La traviata (Salsi)
Duet Gilda - Rigoletto "Tutte le feste al tempio" from Rigoletto (Oropesa and Salsi)
Gaetano Donizetti, Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor (Oropesa)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Per me giunto è il dì supremo" from Don Carlo (Salsi)
Gaetano Donizetti, Duet Adina - Dulcamara "Quanto amore!"-"Una tenera occhiatina from L'elisir d'amore (Oropesa and Salsi)
Encore:
"O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi (Oropesa)
"Era uguale la voce?... Ah!... Che zucconi?" from Gianni Schicchi (Salsi)
"Dunque io son" from The Barber of Seville (Oropesa and Salsi)
Sunday 25 September 2022, 15:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Lisette Oropesa, Soprano (Japan Debut)
Luca Salsi, Baritone
Francesco Lanzilotta, Conductor
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Scheduled program (as of 25 March 2022)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Pietà, rispetto, onore" from Macbeth (Salsi)
"Ah, fors'è lui...Sempre libera" from La traviata (Oropesa)
"Alzati! Là tuo figlio...Eri tu" from Un ballo in maschera (Salsi)
Duet Germont - Violetta "Madamigella Valéry? ..Dite alla giovine" from La traviata (Oropesa and Salsi)
Gaetano Donizetti, Duet Enrico-Lucia "Appressati, Lucia" from Lucia di Lammermoor (Oropesa and Salsi)
Unberto Giordano, "Nemico della patria" from Andrea Chénier (Salsi)
Vincenzo Bellini, "O rendetemi la speme... Vien diletto" from I Puritani (Oropesa)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" from Rigoletto (Salsi)
Gioachino Rossini, Duet Rosina-Figaro "Dunque io son...tu non m'inganni?" from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Oropesa and Salsi)
Encore:
"O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi (Oropesa)
"Era uguale la voce?... Ah!... Che zucconi?" from Gianni Schicchi (Salsi)
"AH! Si, vendetta" from Rigoletto (Oropesa and Salsi)