Hello my friends, and welcome to my Spring 2024 Newsletter!
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Hello my friends, and welcome to another beautiful spring season to celebrate!
I love this time of year and am really enjoying all the wonderful projects I’ve been able to be a part of so far in 2024.
After an exciting Rossini role debut in Vienna, I’m in the Eternal City of Rome getting ready to sing my first ever performances of Amina in Bellini’s beautiful opera, La sonnambula. This is a role I have been dreaming of performing for 20 years and it’s finally time to sing it on stage. I’m very grateful to be performing this bel canto showpiece here in Italy. We have 4 performances with a wonderful cast, starting April 9th.
After that, I’m going to be singing concerts, recitals, and galas for the next few weeks. We have a 3-city concert tour planned with my dear friend Benjamin Bernheim, in Paris, Milan, and Baden Baden, featuring French arias and duets.
Then I’ll be part of 2 galas, one in Barcelona and one in London, celebrating in the glorious venues of the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Royal Opera House.
Additionally, I have 3 scheduled solo-piano recitals, in Budapest, Milan, and Graz. Those performances will feature different programs, highlighting Italian, French, and Spanish art song, as well as opera and zarzuela arias. It’s going to be really fun and full of flavor!
All of these engagements will bring out different pieces and characters to sing, and it’s a pleasure to indulge in them all, like a glorious spring bouquet!
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As much as I love the winter, its end is sometimes gentle, sometimes harsh. Once in a while we float into spring, and other times we run face-first into it. I’m not sure which transition I like better.
Either way, the adjustment is always one that takes a little shaking off for me. As I get comfortable with the time change, the sudden blue skies, the brighter sunlight, I’m reminded that life stretches, it shifts, and you have to flow right along with it. Get busy moving, or get busy falling behind.
I love the inspiration that a fresh bud brings to a tree, and the surprise of a young blossom, and it reminds me that youth is also a part of growth, that youth is not the past, but it is the present, and you get another version of it every year.
I am not the same singer I was when I was 20 and started studying Sonnambula, this same role that I’m only just now getting to debut at age 40.
But then again, I’m a brand new 40 year old.
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🎭 La Sonnambula
April 09, 12, 14, 17
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Rome, IT
🎭 Lisette Oropesa and Benjamin Bernheim in concert
April 26
Théâtre des Champs Elysées
Paris, FR
April 29
Teatro alla Scala
Milano, MI
May 04
Festspielhaus Baden Baden
Baden-Baden, GE
🎭 Liceu Gala Concert
May 02
Gran Theatre del Liceu
Barcelona, ES
🎭 Recital tour with Ruben Fernández Aguirre
May 12
Hungarian State Opera
Budapest, HU
May 22
Stefaniensaal
Graz, AT
🎭 Celebrating 22 Years Of Antonio Pappano
May 16
Royal Opera House
London, UK
🎭 Teatro alla Scala Recital
May 19
Teatro alla Scala
Milano, MI
🎭 Banff Masterclasses
June 13, 14
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Banff, AB
🎭 Metropolitan Opera New York and Asian Tour
June 11
Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
June 20
Lotte Concert Hall
Seoul, KR
June 23 (Osaka), 26 (Tokyo)
Hyogo Arts and Culture Center in Osaka, JP
Suntory Hall in Tokyo, JP
June 29, 30
National Concert Hall
Taipei City, TW
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0:00 - Intro
7:05 - Vlog, Rome
10:53 - 24 Hours in Paris
12:22 - Vienna
14:35 - Hiking
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