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Roberto Frontali in the title role of the Swiss folk hero, with John Osborn as Arnold and Lisette Oropesa starring as Mathilde.
An interview with the Cuban-American soprano, star of Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of The Daughter of the Regiment.
Next year’s lineup of six mainstage operas offers choices for traditional and contemporary opera fans alike.
Giuseppe Verdi’s ever-popular masterpiece returns for a performance starring Lisette Oropesa, Aigul Akhmetshina, Stephen Costello, and Luca Salsi in the title role, with Speranza Scappucci conducting.
Music director Riccardo Muti will conduct music by Beethoven, Price, Glass, and Montgomery while welcoming guest artists like Anne-Sophie Mutter, Leif Ove Andsnes, and Mitsuko Uchida.
The Metropolitan Opera would be able to cut the fees of its highest-paid individual singers by 12.7% under a pending four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists.
Marco Armiliato leads a star-studded cast: Angela Gheorghiu (Magda), Lisette Oropesa (Lisette), Roberto Alagna (Ruggero), Marius Brenciu (Prunier), Samuel Ramey (Rambaldo). From 2009.
Donald Runnicles conducts this family-friendly, English-language 2018 performance featuring Lisette Oropesa (Gretel), Tara Erraught (Hansel), Dolora Zajick (Gertrude), and Gerhard Siegel (Witch).
Soprano Lisette Oropesa is the alluring title character and Michael Fabiano is the infatuated Chevalier des Grieux in this performance of Massenet’s opéra comique. Maurizio Benini conducts.
Lisette Oropesa (Adina), Vito Priante (Califo), and Levy Sekgapane (Selimo) star in this performance of Adina recorded at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy. One of the composer’s less-performed works, the one-act comic opera tells the story of Adina, who is rescued from captivity by her former lover, Selimo. Diego Matheuz conducts.
The 35-year-old made her Met debut in 2006 as a Woman of Crete in Mozart’s Idomeneo. She is scheduled to sing the title role next season in Massenet’s Manon and Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata.
Enjoy an English-language performance of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with Tara Erraught (Hansel); Lisette Oropesa (Gretel); Dolora Zajick (Gertrude); Quinn Kelsey (Peter); Gerhard Siegel (Witch); Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra; Donald Runnicles (conductor).