There is no doubt where the vocal triumph of the evening lies.
The Guardian Rigoletto, Royal Opera, review: thrilling music, ascetic sets and a truly grotesque doll Sept.
Oropesa makes a matchless Gilda, singing with an extraordinary beauty of tone and understated depth of feeling: this really is one of the truly great performances.
iNews Rigoletto review – Oropesa is a matchless Gilda in powerful new take on Verdi’s tragedy Sept.
14, 2021Ĭuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa’s Gilda has a fullness of tone which simply grows in beauty as she duets with the Duke, then launches into her ecstatic reverie, ‘Caro nome’.
The Stage Rigoletto, Royal Opera House, London, review: A wickedly effective new production Sept.
Lisette Oropesa has all Gilda’s notes at her command and manages the tricky task of conveying her character’s almost terrifying innocence. Her mixture of fragility and self-sacrifice, transferred from one controlling monster to another, is heart-rending. Lisette Oropesa is simply the most believable Gilda I have seen not the most voluptuous voice, but used to devastatingly expressive effect.
The Arts Desk Rigoletto review - thrilling new production opens the Royal Opera season Sept.
Lisette Oropesa doesn’t have a huge amount to go on as the silly girl who loves her rapist to the end, but her lyric soprano – fuller than usual in this role – is engaged in a fascinatingly different “Caro nome” from the coloratura.
Evening Standard Rigoletto, Royal Opera review - routine clouds the best in this season opener Sept.
The extravagant ornamentation of the aria is delivered superbly, complete with real trill, yet with delicacy and subtlety. In her celebrated aria Caro nome, Lisette Oropesa succeeds in showing us both the virtuous flower and, with a flash of bare legs and an innocent roll on her bed, the sensual attraction she feels for the duplicitous duke.
Bachtrack Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House review - worth the 30 year wait Sept.
She narrowed her voice daringly fine at the top, but just within the bounds of control. Her soprano is quite dark lower down – hers is no tweetie-pie Gilda – and “Caro nome” revealed rock solid technique including an excellent trill. Oropesa also happens to be the finest lyric coloratura in the world today. 14, 2021īoth Álvarez and Oropesa are great actors. A striking Rigoletto opens Oliver Mears' account at The Royal Opera Sept.