🌸 Spring Newsletter 🌺Recordings, Albums, and Concerts  Welcome to my Winter/Spring 2021 Newsletter! While there have been many cancelations, some projects have managed to move forward and I'm grateful for every performance that I've been able to sing. It's been the season of La traviata, and after having sung it at the Met, Madrid, Barcelona, and Rome, I'm now recording it here in Dresden, for CD release on Pentatone. Following this recording project, there are concerts scheduled in Europe in April: A bel canto concert of arias and duets with the Santa Cecilia in Rome, and a solo aria concert with the Nachtigall Artists in Prague. The film version of La traviata, directed by Mario Martone, will be broadcast on April 9th on Rai3 at 21:30, European time. |
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Upcoming Performances La TraviataTeatro dell'Opera di Roma Violetta Valéry After the extraordinary television and critical success of the film production of Il barbiere di Siviglia which last December inaugurated the 2020-2021 season of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, a new collaboration between the Lirico Romano and Rai Cultura: La traviata by Giuseppe Greens . On the podium of the Orchestra of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, its musical director, maestro Daniele Gatti, while Mario Martone signs the direction and scenes of this new film-opera of the Verdi masterpiece based on Alexandre Dumas son's La Dame aux camélias . It is the fourth new opera production produced by the Opera House since the beginning of the Covid emergency. The show will be recorded without an audience and broadcast in prime time on Rai 3 on April 9th. April 9th, 9:30PM  Bel Canto ConcertAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Soprano Lisette teams up with Antonio Pappano and Xabier Anduaga to give a concert full of bel canto from Bellini and Donizetti. April, 15, 16, 17 Santa Cecilia Hall Rome, IT  RecitalNachtigall Artists Soprano Lisette and conductor Christopher Franklin give a varied program of French and Italian music with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. April 22 Municipal House - Smetana Hall Prague, CZ |
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FeaturesInterviewsInterview  There have been a lot of interviews over the last few months between all of my projects, you can view the list of all of them here! Interview - L'ape Musicale (Italian) Interview - La Repubblica (Italian) Interview - Associated Press (English) Interview - New Barcelona Post (Spanish) Interview - Classical Revolution with Rachel Fenlon (English, Podcast) Radio Interview - Las mañanas de RNE with Pepa Fernández (Spanish, Radio)Interview - La Vanguardia (Spanish)Interview - Amadeus Magazine (Italian, Magazine)Interview - Scherzo Magazine (Spanish)Interview - Cadena Ser (Spanish, Radio, Podcast) Interview with the Metropolitan Opera National Council as National Advisor (English) Interview - La Repubblica (Italian) ----- "She remembers her debut two years ago in the prestigious theater, in Verdi's I masnadieri : "How scary! My colleagues had told me about the loggionists, about plays that ended in whistles. I was terrified of 'boooooo'. I was very nervous. Verdi wrote the role. by Amalia thinking of the legendary Swedish soprano Jenny Lind; in the last century she was a workhorse of the great Joan Sutherland ... Maestro Michele Mariotti helped me perfect my bel canto performance, a special experience, also thanks to the director David McVicar, whom I adore. Here in Rome I discovered the talent of Mario Martone, very good, he has wonderful ideas. Since Covid forces us to stream, we risk things that we cannot normally do in the theater ".~ Repubblica |
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Place and date: Gran Teatre del Liceu (12/15/2020) Seductive and charismatic, this was the Violetta Valéry of the American Lisette Oropesa, personal success and ovation at the Liceu. With the functions of La Traviata recovered after expanding the ceiling from 500 spectators to 1,000, it was necessary to enjoy the third of the four Violetta in discord, seen already Kristina Mkhitaryan and Pretty Yende, and in the absence of Ermonela Jaho in the last function. Lisette, the lightest, surprised, because beyond a brilliant first act, where she displayed her instrument a piacere, E flat at the end of “Semper libera!” , easy, bright and timbred highs, it grew with the development of the score. In his duet with Germont Sr., he colored, sought expression and nuances, always sullen, with detailed phrasing, articulating each phrase with a first-class Bel canto school. In his final aria “Addio del passato”, the most applauded, he controlled the vibrato, brought drama and ended with an unforgettable volatile pianissimo. Brava la Oropesa! - Jordi Maddaleno • La Vanguardia
For charitable purposes and intention to redeem herself, of course. The most brilliant, by far, was the Cuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa, who performed the aria "Regnava nel silenzio" from "Lucia di Lammermoor." Donizetti's opera, to which La Scala's "cousin" had consecrated in 2020 before the pandemic hit, was relegated to one more performance. - Ismael Monzón • La Razón
Oropesa was not only comfortable but even contained in the first pieces, with a firm emission full of warm morbidity, which delighted in a middle register of astonishing richness, although without fear of exploring the meatiness of the lower notes or the loose highs –Which he cleverly left for the last interventions– thanks to an impeccable technical quality that allows it a flexible, homogeneous and brilliant tone throughout its range. His control of the fiato is remarkable, but even more so because he does not abuse his phrasing just to show off his impeccable legato, but because each breath is deliberately done with just the right expressiveness, integrating it into the song itself. With the same simplicity –not to call it humility–, coloratures and ornaments were executed with resolution but without gloating or fussing, so that juggling games were not empty but reinforcements of musical expressiveness; and the treble, squandering lightness and presence in equal measure, were justly rationed, without the intention of seeking easy applause. - Franco Madariaga • Naiz
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Reflections These 12 months since my last "normal" performance have been some of the hardest of my life and career, and I'm still just getting by, day by day. Even though I have been continuing to sing throughout the pandemic, there have been tons of cancellations and rescheduled or reimagined events. But I count my blessings every day that I can bring even a little bit of music into the lives of others via web/stream, and with every virtual project that we complete, I miss our live audiences more and more! Let's continue to inspire one another, and please know that I am so grateful for each and every one of you and your support. It has been the brightest part of this dark time. Thank you! |
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