Bel raggio lusinghier - Semiramide - Rossini - Lisette Oropesa

Bel raggio lusinghier - Semiramide by Gioachino Rossini
Orchestra of the Arena di Verona - Conducted by Jader Bignamini
Recorded August 14th, 2020
External Audio Source
First time I ever sang this aria with orchestra, in public! It’s been a dream of mine to sing this aria in concert but I’ve largely avoided it because I don’t have a comfortable high E, although in this version I inserted one in the cadenza in the middle! 😅
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SEMIRAMIDE:
Bel raggio lusinghier
Di speme e di piacer
Alfin per me brillò:
Arsace ritornò, - Sì, a me verrà .
Quest'alma che sinor
Gemé, tremò, languì...
Oh! come respirò! -
Ogni mio duol sparì,
Dal cor, dal mio pensier
Si dileguò il terror...
Bel raggio lusinghier
Di speme, di piacer
Alfin per me brillò:
Arsace ritornò, - Qui a me verrà . -
SEMIRAMIDE col CORO
La calma a questo cor
Arsace renderà :
Arsace ritornò, - Qui a me/te verrà ...
Qui tutto spirerà
La calma dell'amor
La pura voluttà .
SEMIRAMIDE
Dolce pensiero
Di quell'istante,
A te sorride L'amante cor.
Come più caro,
Dopo il tormento,
È il bel momento
Di pace e amor!
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[@vincenzodeleo268]

Questa meravigliosa aria la ho sentita cantare da molte, ma pochissime mi hanno soddisfatto appieno (tra tutte la Bartoli). Adesso Lisette Oropesa e tra queste poche elette.

[@Shahrdad]

Always wonderful to hear Lisette sing and caress these complicated passages legato and shape them into the melody that they were supposed to be. I'm so sick of gargled and aspirated machine gun coloratura we hear in this music nowadays.

[@KathrynARyder]

Wow! Brava Lisette!!! The current Queen of Bel Canto!!!

[@corneliuswhite5139]

I second that!😊

[@zeynjenkins2073]

100% agree

[@amber40494]

Yes! She is! 😍

[@amber40494]

Love the dress! Looks retro 1970. Lisette, you're so beautiful

[@jimbuxton2187]

She is really a fine singer. Listen to how even her tone is and strong in the middle register.

[@Yves_Ka]

The real specialty of her voice is the absolutely most beautiful warm timber in all the registers.

[@johnboy8576]

DIVINA!!!!! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! BRAVA LISETTE!!! THE BEST LYRIC COLORATURA! YOUR VOICE SHINES! ❤️🌞

[@HeroeAIrwan]

One of my wildest dreams is watching one of your live performances.

[@MrJohannLubbe]

You have so much more to bring to great modern singing than a bloody high E! Most people dont do it well anyway and this was perfect!

[@SR-jx8yu]

Holy Lord in Heaven! Just amazing! Lisette IS the lyrical coloratura of our time!

[@marcosalterio6306]

the richest and fullest voice today in your range Lisette! Brava!

[@sergiovanelli7420]

...dopo anni di normale professionalità..pur gradevole..nel mondo della lirica..finalmente una cantante che emerge e surclassa tutte le altre..voce..tecnica..classe...interpretazione ad altissimi livelli...in questo momento..veramente unica...

[@BellaFirenze]

Who else sings like this today? No one. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@corneliuswhite5139]

This is great "edge of your seat" singing.🥰❤

[@1955etienne]

Bravo .... c ' est une personnalité exceptionnelle ..; pour moi la Callas des années 2000

[@WilsonWatt-q2e]

It is interesting how many below comment on the strength and evenness of the middle voice. This was also what both Callas and Sutherland stressed as the true basis of dramatic coloratura. Her voice is lovely and her diction is very good [yes, I do speak Italian having lived there for some time.

[@ahogbin2644]

Quite superb! Let’s hope she sings the entire role soon.

[@Cimento1906]

Lisette out there slaying y’all!!! Bravo!!!!!

[@itscarolina.araujo]

Brava!! Bravissima!! The high E was impeccable! 💖

[@giuseppedecarlo909]

Indiscutibilmente la più brava di tutte 🌹❤️

[@walterbenjamin1386]

Holy cow! More, please, more! Aren't there any videos or recordings of your complete operas? I haven't heard a voice like this in ages. Thank you god!

[@marciakaiser8634]

Meravigliosa!!!

[@wotan10950]

The aria is quite wonderful! Beautifully sung, in the Sutherland-Anderson League. I’ve been to Verona in the summer - the heat and humidity are very good for the voice!

[@marialuisameandri3671]

Assolutamente fantastica! 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹

[@MariAntzolan]

What a wonderful artist! Refreshing to listen to and watch!

[@KarlaMatus79]

Grandiosa. Me gustó mucho la interpretación. Saludos cordiales desde Managua, Nicaragua 🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮

[@eugeniomaslacave409]

Maravillosa, emocionante, divina, bravaaaaa

[@fernandorivas7419]

Bravissima querida Lisette. Una interpretación muy emocionante que alcanza niveles épicos. Saludos cordiales desde Santiago de Chile. Dr.Fernando Rivas-Burattini. 🤝👏👏💐🎼🙏✝️🙏🇨🇱🇨🇱🇺🇸🇺🇸🇨🇺🇨🇺.

[@victoriagrapsidou3474]

Brava Lisette!! Wonderful!!!!

[@mackdixon454]

This is one awesome lady. Her voice is just miraculous!

[@hadtit]

La mejor soprano del momento actual

[@Diva_D]

Probably the best soprano these days, brava.

[@LohengrinO]

Brava!... can we pls have Alaide's Mad scene?

[@RodolfoLimacbx]

5:21 • I believe that the fact that she also plays the clarinet must have helped the quality in her clear, practically perfect execution of the notes. It's one of the possible explanations for her being so good at articulating them! After or equal J. Sutherland, it's her! Bravo, Oropesa!

[@robertgrayson6091]

Actually, she played the flute!

[@joaoaurelio1534]

i absolutely love you lisette

[@KimBakTarot]

Incredible ❤ sounds so easy when she dose it #hardwork 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 brava!!!!!

[@soundslikeblue]

In my humble opinion, Rossini is probably the composer that better suits your beautiful voice, Lisette! Thank you so much for sharing this rendition with us, your coloratura sounds beautiful and pleasant to my ears (belcanto is not suposed to be sounding like a coloratura machine gun, as someone alreday wrote bellow, and some other singers do sound like that. The faster is Not necessarily the better, you just seem to have the perfect balance for what Rossini composed here). I hope you perform the entire role of Semiramide someday! Greetings from Lisbon!

[@manuelvillalobosatr]

Marvelous 🤩

[@FireDoc911]

Tremendous!

[@highbaritone]

Dear lady, this is wonderful and I know of what I speak. Well at least I think I do. 👍❤️👋

[@Al-gv5uw]

I love Rossini incredible singing very beautiful dress!

[@araunapalm]

Gorgeous!

[@pedropabloalvarezmcnab]

Lisette are you joking? That was just breathtaking

[@pedropabloalvarezmcnab]

PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU RECORD MORE THINGS AND PUT THEM IN SPOTIFY I WANT TO BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THESE THINGS DAILY 😭😖

[@joaocampelo3725]

Finallyyyy!!! ❣️❣️❣️

[@frb1808]

WOW... Those chest notes!!

[@AllenFigueredo5]

I think she is far better than all the "leading sopranos of today"

[@alejandrotm]

En directo debió sonar estupendamente si la grabación es así de buena. Tengo que estar atento al próximo trabajo que traiga por Madrid, recital u ópera, valdrá la pena sin duda

[@TheKatchour]

BRAVISSIMA ❗️😃👍💐

[@nonyabidness5708]

She's the first female opera singer I can stand to listen to outside of actual musicals and Handel's Messiah.

[@linatsiklauri]

Amazing Lisette🥰

[@hugotorres8693]

Bravisima!!! 💐

[@barbaranorthwood]

This is very fine. Thank you

[@johnboy8576]

Hope to upload also Alaide's Mad Scene from La Straniera and Bianca's aria from Bianca and Fernando. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@6828tom]

Bravo!!!!!!!

[@MaestroWenarto]

bravaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@oliviero.m750]

Funny how at the ends Lisette climbs as if she would hit the High-E but changes its mind at the last second to a lower note. Of course it is her own variation and I highly doubt she hesitated but that was my first reaction anyway.

[@69EBubu]

Yep, a split second hesitation, "let's keep it safe"... ;) But always done in such a musical and intelligent way. I think we're all amazed at the accomplishments made by Lisette in just a few years : Callas, Sutherland and Caballé combined in one authentic artist with a personality of her own. I HOPE there has been a video testimony of her complete recent Traviata at ROH, as this will become as legendary as the Callas Scala Traviata of 53.

[@amber40494]

@@69EBubu I first heard her singing the forest bird in The Ring! HD Met opera a few years ago. She's really matured vocally !

[@danielng7795]

@@amber40494 She did. Musically she's splendid, really reminds me of the golden age of singing. I also heard that she's a fan of Maria Callas and it shows in the way she sings.

[@rodhuss]

LIsette, qué hermosa voz! Un placer escucharte. Se avisora un gran lugar en la historia de la opera para ti.

[@DouglasMoreman]

From a fan in Baton Rouge :)

[@wm.traynor1143]

Brava Lisette!👏👏👏

[@HenriMesquida]

Tout a fait excellent.

[@schneevongestern9898]

I hear a resemblance of Edita Gruberova in the coloratura sequence at the end. Which i mean as very strong compliment. This is sung superbly well. Very, very impressive. And also creative. I have never heard these specific variations before. Are they a known variation? Or are they her personal a piacere? Maybe someone knows.

[@KBGWorld29]

She’s having a “steely” facet in her top notes these days.

[@agnivacharjya4558]

Bravo!

[@gvbrandolini]

Brava

[@edwardamosbrandwein3583]

Great!

[@vitonardi3892]

La migliore in assoluto !

[@cevetter]

Lisette Oropesa and Joe Burrow, two of LSU"s finest! :)

[@rudyarambula750]

Bravaaaaa!

[@eduardoborges9466]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@BrianJosephMorgan]

Brava!

[@JoanSutherlandFan]

Wonderful!

[@kristianmcintosh432]

4:41 my own personal time stamp 😂…this is the same person that said she didn’t have an E..looks like you manufactured one 😂😁

[@danielng7795]

😂 but hey, she did sing it well. One of her very rare high Es besides a vos jeux mes amis and vorrei spegarvi o dio

[@jjlungdoc7472]

Bravissima.

[@kylajackson7030]

You're amazing

[@stephencostan207]

wow

[@vivianbelissima]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@OlgaSofiaSilva]

👏👏👏

[@ciociosan]

Videos and recordings fail to capture the beauty of her sound in a concert hall or opera house.

[@angelpaz55]

Amazing. Unbelievable. Lisette is , by far, the best soprano of our Times. Sometimes She sings like Joan, sometimes like the greatest María, even other times like Mariella or Diana,or Anna ( both Moffo & Nebtrenko),or.... I'm keen to see U at Teatro Real. Brava Cara Amica. Perfecto.

[@zadighamroune]

Diana Damrau? Lisette is a Great deal better.

[@erdenetuyaboldbaatar1760]

❤❤❤

[@소현주-b1i]

3:31

[@ilGattoMistico]

Plus belle ou plus douce? ainsi qu'une chanteuse magique

[@DouglasMoreman]

Thanks

[@alfredocano1259]

Unica!!!!!!!

[@crisha721]

Fabulous singer! Charismatic , intelligent and she really knows how to use her instrument. J. Sutherland and Callas are unsurpassable in this repertoire, but Lissette stands on her own!!!