Spring NewsletterThank you for reading the spring edition of my newsletter! It's with your kindness and enthusiasm that I am able to bring this to you. Please help build our community by forwarding this letter to your friends! Click the photo below to watch the video edition of my newsletter. ⬇️  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! |
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Upcoming Performances | Great Mass in C MinorBaton 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 SerailBayerische 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 minorCincinnati 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 galantesBayerische 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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Features225 Magazine InterviewInterview 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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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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