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Performer: Lisette Oropesa

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VeronaTurandot

Fondazione Arena di Verona
Puccini: Turandot
Andrea Battistoni; Franco Zeffirelli; Arena di Verona Corps de Ballet; Emi Wada; Arena di Verona Orchestra; Arena di Verona Chorus

BarcelonaI Capuleti e i Montecchi

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Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and The Montagues)
Riccardo Frizza; Allex Aguilera; Gran Teatre del Liceu; Sasha Yankevych; Françoise Raybaud; Luis Perdiguero

MadridBellini - Norma

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Bellini: Norma
Francesco Lanzillotta; Justin Way; Teatro Real; John Fiore; Charles Edwards; Sue Willmington; Nicolás Fischtel

MunichMaria StuardaNew production

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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Antonino Fogliani; Francesco Micheli; Bavarian State Opera; Giulia Bruschi; Alessio Rosati; Alessandro Verazzi; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

LondonI puritaniNew production

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Bellini: I puritani
Riccardo Frizza; Richard Jones; The Royal Opera; Hyemi Shin; Nicky Gillibrand; Adam Silverman; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

SavonlinnaNormaConcert performance

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Bellini: Norma
Riccardo Frizza; Gothenburg Opera Orchestra; Gothenburg Opera Chorus; Lisette Oropesa; Ann-Kristin Jones
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Vocal thrills in Met’s traditional staging of Bellini’s I puritani

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Marco Armiliato conducts a finely balanced rendition of Bellini's final masterpiece with a stellar cast headed by Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee.

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LA Opera’s Rigoletto: a feast for the ears – and the mind

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Quinn Kelsey shines as Verdi’s court jester as Tomer Zvulun's production opens in Los Angeles. 
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Lisette Oropesa shines radiantly in Mozart with the Met Orchestra

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The American soprano dazzles in two Mozart concert arias bookended by fine performances of a recent work by Jessie Montgomery and Brahms’ First Symphony.
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A dark, gothic Lucia di Lammermoor finally makes it to La Scala

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Riccardo Chailly conducts a wonderful, integral performance of Donizetti’s masterpiece, with two of the greatest bel canto singers of our times.
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Big-hearted, quirky, fun: Richard Jones' Alcina for The Royal Opera

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Lisette Oropesa leads strong vocal performances in Handel's madcap tale of love and sorcery. Richard Jones' production is visually all over the place, but in a good way.
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Bellini's last monument to bel canto: I puritani in Naples

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Appearing in Naples after an absence of 34 years, Bellini's opera was given in a concert performance headed by Lisette Oropesa and Xabier Anduaga.
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ParisLes Huguenots

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Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
Michele Mariotti; Andreas Kriegenburg; Opéra national de Paris; Harald Thor; Tanja Hofmann; Andreas Grüter; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisHamlet

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Thomas: Hamlet
Pierre Dumoussaud; Krzysztof Warlikowski; Opéra national de Paris; Małgorzata Szczęśniak; Felice Ross; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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Gothic horror, magic and romance at the 2023 Savonlinna Opera Festival

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In 2023 the Savonlinna Opera Festival once again offers a unique, summertime operatic experience – situated in a medieval lakeside castle.

Lisette Oropesa on singing a socially-distanced Traviata

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As the curtain raised again on live performances in parts of the world, the American soprano reveals what it was like to sing in a 2020 "new normal" staging at Madrid's Teatro Real. 

At the helm of the Met: Peter Gelb

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The General Manager of America's operatic flagship talks about the forthcoming season, singers, production styles and why Two Boys never made it into the cinema.