Lisette Oropesa - French Bel Canto Arias
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GIOACCHINIO ROSSINI / GAETANO DONIZETTI
Lisette Oropesa - French Bel Canto Arias
Lisette Oropesa (soprano) / Sachsischer Staatsopernchor, Dresdner Philharmonie, Corrado Rovaris, with Kristina Fuchs, Frank Blümel, & others
[ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Friday 14 October 2022
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On her second solo album Lisette Oropesa has combined two of her greatest loves, the French language and Italian bel canto. This recording with the Dresdner Philharmonie under the baton of Corrado Rovaris showcases the variety of lesser-known and more popular works by Rossini and Donizetti, featuring arias that contain coloratura, lyricism, drama, heightened emotion, and even comedy. Star soprano Lisette Oropesa made her Pentatone debut with Ombra Compagna, Mozart Concert Arias in 2021, and sung the title heroine in a complete recording of Verdi's La Traviata, also released on the label in 2022. The Dresdner Philharmonie was involved in that same recording, and has also participated in several other recordings released by Pentatone, such as Weber's Der Freischütz (2019), Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Puccini's Il Tabarro (both 2020) and Beethoven's Fidelio (2021).
"Her voice is both pure and full-bodied, with an extensive range in terms of both tessitura and characterisation, allowing her to do justice to the many different moods showcased on this recording, from deep emotion to comedy. She approaches the longest of coloratura runs with apparent effortlessness, rising beyond superficial showiness to bring character to each performance." BBC Music
"She's in wonderful voice throughout, her coloratura at once dazzling and expressive, her sense of line often flawless, text, character and emotions exactingly conveyed" Gramophone Editor's Choice Nov 2022
"A winner in every respect and a strong candidate for my Recording of the Year!" MusicWeb
International Opera Awards 2023
Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
Tracks:
Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
Le siège de Corinthe (1826)
(libretto by Giuseppe Luigi Balocchi and Louis-Antoine-Alexandre Soumet)
Act II, No 5
1 Que vais-je devenir ? [4:14]
2 Du séjour de la lumière [8:02]
Act III, No 12
3 L'heure fatale approche [2:46]
4 Juste ciel [3:34]
Guillaume Tell (1829) · Act II, No 9
(libretto by Victor Joseph Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis,
adapted from the drama by Friedrich Schiller)
5 Ils s'éloignent enfin [3:06]
6 Sombre forêt [5:05]
Le comte Ory (1828) · Act II, No 4
(libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Gaspare Delestre-Poirson)
7 En proie à la tristesse… [5:16]
8 Céleste providence [4:27]
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Les martyrs (1840) · Act I, Scene 5
(libretto by Eugène Scribe)
9 Ô ma mère [1:00]
10 Qu'ici ta main glacée bénisse ton enfant [3:04]
Lucie de Lammermoor (1839)· Act I, Scenes 6 & 7
(libretto by Alphonse Royer et Gustave Vaëz, based on the Italian version by Salvadore
Cammarano, and on the novel The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott)
11 Gilbert... Ô fontaine [2:20]
12 Que n'avons-nous des ailes ? [6:45]
La fille du régiment (1840)
(libretto by Jean-François-Alfred Bayard and Jules-Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges)
Act I, No 6
13 Il faut partir [5:45]
Act II, No 8
14 C'en est donc fait [6:03]
15 Salut à la France [3:38]
