Lisette Oropesa & Luca Salsi Duo Concerts
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Lisette Oropesa & Luca Salsi Duo Concerts

Many of the Japanese opera fans should still clearly remember the stunning performances by the great Italian baritone Luca Salsi in 2014 in the title role of Nabucco with the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on their Japan tour led by Riccardo Muti. Luca Salsi is now one of the most sought-after baritones and sings for significant opera companies across the world.

In the two Duo Concerts in Tokyo, Salsi sings with soprano Lisette Oropesa, one of the most in-demand lyric coloraturas today, who performs leading roles regularly at the most important opera houses around the world following her great success as Suzanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera in 2007. The Duo Concerts will be her long-awaited Japan debut. They will be joined by the Italian conductor Francesco Lanzillotta, one of the most interesting conductors of his generation.

The sumptuous programs performed by the two operatic stars promise you exceptional soirées.

Lisette Oropesa & Luca Salsi Duo Concert - 1

Friday 23 September 2022, 15:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Lisette Oropesa, Soprano (Japan Debut)
Luca Salsi, Baritone
Francesco Lanzillotta, Conductor
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Running Time About 2 hours and 15 minutes including an intermission.

Lisette Oropesa & Luca Salsi Duo Concert - 2

Sunday 25 September 2022, 15:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Lisette Oropesa, Soprano (Japan Debut)
Luca Salsi, Baritone
Francesco Lanzillotta, Conductor
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Running Time About 2 hours and 15 minutes including an intermission.

Lisette Oropeasa

Photo: Stefano Guindan

Luca Salsi

Photo: Marco Borrelli

Programs

Friday 23 September 2022, 15:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Giuseppe Verdi, Overture (Sinfonia) to Les Vêpres siciliennes
Giuseppe Verdi, "Merci, jeunes amies" from Les Vêpres siciliennes (Oropesa)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" from Rigoletto (Salsi)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Ah, fors'è lui...Sempre libera" from La traviata (Oropesa)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Di Provenza il mar, il suol" from La traviata (Salsi)
Giuseppe Verdi, Duet Gilda-Rigoletto "Tutte le feste al tempio" from Rigoletto (Oropesa and Salsi)
Giacomo Puccini, Intermezzo from Madama Butterfly
Gaetano Donizetti, Mad Scene "Il dolce suono...Spargi d'amore pianto" from Lucia di Lammermoor (Oropesa)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Per me giunto è il dì supremo" from Don Carlo (Salsi)
Gaetano Donizetti, Duet Adina-Dulcamara "Quanto amore!"-"Una tenera occhiatina" from L'elisir d'amore (Oropesa and Salsi)

Sunday 25 September 2022, 15:00 @Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Giuseppe Verdi, Overture (Sinfonia) to Les Vêpres siciliennes
Giuseppe Verdi, "Pietà, rispetto, onore" from Macbeth (Salsi)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Ah, fors'è lui...Sempre libera" from La traviata (Oropesa)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Eccomi solo alfine...O vecchio cor, che batti" from I due Foscari (Salsi)
Giuseppe Verdi, Duet Germont-Violetta "Madamigella Valéry? ..Ah! Dite alla giovine" from La traviata (Oropesa and Salsi)
Gaetano Donizetti, Duet Enrico-Lucia "Appressati, Lucia...Il pallor funesto, orrendo" from Lucia di Lammermoor (Oropesa and Salsi)
Giacomo Puccini, Intermezzo from Madama Butterfly
Umberto Giordano, "Nemico della patria" from Andrea Chénier (Salsi)
Vincenzo Bellini, "O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce sua soave...Vien diletto" from I Puritani (Oropesa)
Giuseppe Verdi, "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" from Rigoletto (Salsi)
Gioachino Rossini, Duet Rosina-Figaro "Dunque io son...tu non m'inganni?" from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Oropesa and Salsi)

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*Casting and program as of 8 September 2022 are subject to change.