Lisette encores the cabaletta of "Carlo vive?" at the Teatro Real

This was the soprano’s third encore at the Real, making her the only singer to date to have given encores in three different operas

Last night, at the premiere of the opera I masnadieri (The Bandits), by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro Real, Lisette Oropesa, the outstanding Cuban-American soprano — and also Spanish since 2019 — offered a widely requested encore, singing the cabaletta of the second-act aria: “Carlo vive? O caro accento, melodia di paradiso”.

This is the singer’s third encore at the Teatro Real: the first was alongside the five singers in the sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor, by Gaetano Donizetti, in 2018, and the second in La traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi, in 2020, with the aria “Addio del passato”, during the moving performances given throughout the pandemic period. Opera program

At the Teatro Real, Lisette Oropesa has taken part in five different operas and one concert: Rigoletto (2015), Lucia di Lammermoor (2018), La traviata (2020), Il turco in Italia (2023) and Maria Stuarda (2024). She also gave a concert in 2022.

LISETTE OROPESA

She studied flute for twelve years before graduating in Voice from Louisiana State University. After winning the National Council Auditions of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, she made her debut there at 22 as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. Since then, she has performed more than 150 performances at the Met in roles such as Violetta in La traviata, the title role in Manon, Elvira in I puritani, Gilda in Rigoletto and Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel. She has appeared at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Opéra national de Paris, the Royal Ballet and Opera in London and the Salzburg Festival in roles such as the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor and Maria Stuarda, Ophélie in Hamlet, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia. She is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. At the Teatro Real in Madrid she has appeared in Rigoletto (2015), Lucia di Lammermoor (2018), La traviata (2020), Il turco in Italia (2023) and Maria Stuarda (2024), and gave a concert there in 2022.

Photos: © Javier del Real | Teatro Real