Classical Latin Productions / Humberto Capiro

12/17/2025

OPERAWIRE: In December 2024, when Bolivian-Albanian soprano Carolina López Moreno sang the role of Magda in “La Rondine,” the London Symphony critics proclaimed “A Star is Born.” Those performances marked the start of an international career for the BolivianAlbanian soprano, who would go on to make unexpected debuts at the Semperoper Dresden, Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Royal Opera House. She also made unexpected debuts at the Teatro Carlo Felice and Teatro San Carlo. Since then, López Moreno has performed at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Opera Menorca, Teatro Regio di Torino, and Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, among many important theaters.

The soprano has also become known for her Italian repertoire especially her Puccini roles like “Madama Butterfly,” and “La Bohème” as well as her Verdi roles Alice Ford in “Falstaff,” Violetta Valéry in “La Traviata,” and Leonora “Il Trovatore.”

She opened the 2025-26 season at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo and is set to return to the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino this season. She also sings at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Gran Teatre del Liceu, New National Theatre of Tokyo, and Festispielhaus Baden-Baden.
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So without further ado, OperaWire presents its 10 rising stars of 2025 (in alphabetical order).

12/11/2025

FREE EVENT THIS SUNDAY: LA Opera Connects and Hispanics for LA Opera invite you to immerse yourself in Latino artistry and culture at our 3rd annual Celebración de las Artes on Sunday, December 14, at 4:30pm. Join us on The Music Center’s Jerry Moss Plaza for a community celebration unlike any other. Enjoy live bolero, mariachi, and holiday choir performances. You'll even get a chance to sing along to holiday favorites on the plaza with LA Opera's Zarzuela Project. Meet and greet the stars of La Bohème, snap a selfie with the cast of this timeless classic
https://www.laopera.org/community-learning/community-groups/hispanics-for-la-opera/celebracion%C2%A0de-las-artes
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Immerse yourself in Latino artistry and culture at LA Opera's annual Celebración de las Artes.

05/10/2025

OMG! CUBAN AMERICAN SOPRANO LISETTE OROPESA AT LA OPERA LATE THIS MONTH AND EARLY JUNE! - Dear friends, I’m looking forward to jumping in to a few performances of Gilda in Rigoletto at the gorgeous in the next few weeks! May 31, June 8, 12, and 15. I cannot wait to return to this incredible city and especially to join my colleagues and in our first project together onstage! Gratitude beyond belief to be able to sing this beloved role once again!

Please join me in wishing my dear friend and colleague Rosa Feola a lot of good energy this spring. 🙏
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Dear friends, I’m looking forward to jumping in to a few performances of Gilda in Rigoletto at the gorgeous in the next few weeks! May 31, June 8, 12, and 15.

I cannot wait to return to this incredible city and especially to join my colleagues and in our first project together onstage! Gratitude beyond belief to be able to sing this beloved role once again!

Please join me in wishing my dear friend and colleague Rosa Feola a lot of good energy this spring. 🙏

03/29/2025

TICKETS $20-$26 WHICH INCLUDES A GLASS OF WINE AND APPETIZERS - Opera Ole'! ~ A Spanish Opera Concert ~ Casa Italiana DTLA - 🕗 Sun Mar 30 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm (PDT) -📍 Casa Italiana, 1051 North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012 - Join us for a festive afternoon of arias and art songs from the world of Spanish opera, Zarzuela, and opera of the Americas! - Arias from CARMEN - Art songs from composers such as Agustin Lara, Albeniz, and more Classics of Latinx folk music - The talented singers will immerse you in a world of emotion and sound! Grab your friends and family, and join for an afternoon of energy and vibrance!
DOORS OPEN 1:00 PM
~~~ Enjoy Social/Mingle time & Play Opera Games!
~~~Browse our Shoppe and Displays!
~~~Be part of Opera Italia's Community!
Concert STARTS 2:00 PM
PERFORMANCE WILL BE 1 hour 30 minutes
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Be dazzled with color, beauty, and spicy OPERA Allegre! A concert featuring the best of opera from Spain and the Americas!

01/13/2025

On Wednesday, January 8, 2025, the once vibrant Tahitian Terrace mobile home community in Pacific Palisades was completely destroyed by the fast-moving wildf...

10/17/2024

FREE EVENT! - 📅 Dissabte 26 d’octubre / Sábado 26 de octubre / Saturday, October 26 - 🕰 11:00am-2:00pm - 📍 Instituto Cervantes of Los Angeles - 3375 Barham Blvd - Los Angeles, CA 90068 - RSVP: [email protected] - El Instituto Cervantes de Los Ángeles, en colaboración con la Casal dels Catalans de Califòrnia, Valencia Cultural Point y Espai de So, patrocinado por la Generalitat de Catalunya, tiene el honor de presentar las: II JORNADES DE PATRIMONI ETNOMUSICAL CATALÀ, VALENCIÀ, ARAGONÉS I BALEAR / II JORNADAS DE PATRIMONIO ETNOMUSICAL CATALÁN, VALENCIANO, ARAGONÉS Y BALEAR / II CATALAN, VALENCIAN, ARAGONESE AND BALEARIC ETHNOMUSIC HERITAGE DAYS

10/03/2024

CONGRATS DIVA! OPERAWIRE: The Opera Awards which took place at the Bayerische Staatsoper on Oct. 2 has announced its 2024 winners. Cuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa has won the Female Singer of the Year while Benjamin Bernheim was awarded the Male Singer of the Year Award. Arturo Chacón Cruz took home the Reader’s Choice Award and Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir won the Rising Star Award. The top prize of Opera Company went to the Komische Oper Berlin while Simone Young took home the coveted Conductor of the Year award.
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09/02/2024

TWO CUBAN-AMERICANS NOMINATED! LISETTE OROPESA AND ANTHONY LEON! - OPERAWIRE: The International Opera Awards has revealed its 2024 awards. The awards ceremony is set to place at the Bayerische Staatsoper on Oct. 2, 2024.BBC Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny will again host the awards ceremony -
FEMALE SINGER NOMINEES:
-Elsa Dreisig
-Rosa Feola
-Aleksandra Kurzak
-Lisette Oropesa
-Anna Pirozzi
-Adela Zaharia

RISING STAR NOMINEES:
– Justin Austin (baritone)
-Charlotte Corderoy (conductor)
-Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir (mezzo-soprano)
-Duke Kim (tenor)
-Katia Ledoux (mezzo-soprano)
-Anthony León (tenor)
-Marina Monzó (soprano)
-Yaroslav Shemet (conductor)
-William Guanbo Su (bass)
-Jasmin White (contralto)
https://operawire.com/elsa-dreisig-benjamin-bernheim-aleksandra-kurzak-jonathan-tetelman-ludovic-tezier-among-major-nominees-for-2024-international-opera-awards/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFDBn9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdGk4ei_GISdzlZlE_N9CvBCoNzA-HEBIObimws_1FxkuKscL4BKRmAdnQ_aem_6ekI8K9DHtrsVgfnyT40LQ
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The International Opera Awards has revealed its 2024 awards.

06/07/2024

MIAMI HERALD: Maria Todaro resented the political science and law degrees her parents pushed her to get. She wanted to be an opera singer like her parents, not a lawyer or businesswoman. Now, Todaro, an accomplished singer, stage director, fight choreographer and arts entrepreneur is stepping into her biggest role yet, ushering in an ambitious rebrand for Florida’s oldest opera company as the Florida Grand Opera’s new general director. “I was telling my my parents at the time, ‘Who cares about that? Why do I have to do law school?’ And now, years later, it makes sense,” she said. “It’s like everything I’ve ever done in my life was for this.”

Todaro joined Florida Grand Opera, the oldest producing arts organization in Florida and the seventh-oldest opera company in the United States, in October as interim general director after her predecessor Susan T. Danis left the company after 11 years at the helm. Late last month, FGO announced that Todaro would continue as general director with a three-year contract to “infuse new energy” into the 82-year-old company. Board chair Tina Vidal-Duart called it “an exciting new era for FGO.”

“In collaboration with my board and my team, we want to do everything,” Todaro said. “We have a huge, huge vision for this company.”

Vidal-Duart said the board has been pleased with the change Todaro has brought to the company in such a short amount of time. The feedback from the community has been overwhelmingly positive, Vidal-Duart said. She added that some individuals who felt that the company “had grown a little stale” and stopped attending FGO performances are now coming back. The board hopes this new wave of energy will bring more fundraising opportunities for the opera company, which is a nonprofit.

https://amp.miamiherald.com/entertainment/performing-arts/article288970860.html
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She wants to change opera’s snobby reputation.

06/06/2024

FOR THOSE CUBANS IN THE NY & NJ AREAS! - CUBAN-AMERICAN SOPRANO LISETTE OROPESA AT Carnegie Hall Presents - The Met Orchestra -Tuesday, June 11, 2024 @ 8PM - Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage - Experience the famous versatility of The Met Orchestra as Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Brahms’s First Symphony, two of Mozart’s great arias, and a recent work by one of today’s most celebrated composers. Jessie Montgomery’s unifying “Hymn for Everyone” came to her as a revelation—a rare sensation for the composer—and was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2022. The agile voice of world-renowned soprano Lisette Oropesa shines in significant concert arias by Mozart. Grand in its scope as well as its themes, Brahms’s First Symphony is a heroic work, the culmination of decades of preparation and years of labor by a master
+ Lisette Oropesa (born September 29, 1983) is an American operatic soprano of Cuban ancestry.[1] Her repertoire includes works from Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Wagner, Verdi, Bizet, Massenet, Bellini and Puccini. With her lyric coloratura soprano voice,[2] she has performed roles in her native Spanish and English, as well as German, French and Italian. She is particularly noted in the roles of Susanna, Gilda, Konstanze, Lucia and Manon.

Oropesa was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her parents emigrated from Cuba.[2]

She originally studied to be a flautist before her mother, a music teacher and former operatic soprano,[2] suggested she audition for the voice faculty at the Louisiana State University School of Music.[6] She joined the voice program under the guidance of Robert Grayson[7] who was the chair of the Voice/Opera at the LSU School of Music
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts The Met Orchestra in a program of Mozart, Brahms, and more. Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at 8 PM. Official Box Office.

06/04/2024

OPERAWIRE: Les Grands Voix has announced its 2024-25 season. At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Lisette Oropesa, Cyrille Duboi, Nahuel di Pierro, and Ève-Maud Hubeaux present a concert of works by Poulenc and Mozart. Bertrand de Billy conducts the Orchestre Natonal de France - Performance Date: Oct. 9, 2024
+Juan Diego Flórez appears at the Philharmonie de Paris in a performance featuring works by Donizetti, Verdi, Offenbach, and selections from numerous zarzuelas. Ana María Patiño-Osorio conducts the Sinfonía por el Perú - Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2024

Les Grands Voix has announced its 2024-25 season. Opening the season will be a concert featuring Roberto Alagna and Ludovic Tezier as they take on music by Bizet, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, and Moniuszko. Giorgio Croci leads the National Belgium Orchestra at the Philharmonie de Paris. Performance Dat...

06/03/2024

FREE EVENTS AT THE HISTORIC PICO HOUSE OFF THE PLACITA OLVERA! YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE EXCELLENT EXHIBIT ON EARLY LATINO STARS OF HOLLYWOOD!
+Saturday, June 8th at 3 p.m. - Tribute to actor Lupita Tovar (1910-2016)
Screening of DRÁCULA (1931, Universal) | w/ English subtitles
Guests panelists:
Pancho Kohner, Producer
Alejandra Espasande, Exhibition curator
Juan Rodríguez Flores, Cinemateca Mexicana de Los Ángeles
Randy Haberkamp, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

+Sunday, June 9th at 3 p.m. - Tribute to actor Antonio Moreno (1887-1967)
Screening of THE SPANISH DANCER (2015) | w/ English subtitles
Guests panelists:
Mar Torres, filmmaker
Pancho Kohner, Producer
Alejandra Espasande, Exhibition curator
Randy Haberkamp, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

+Saturday, June 22nd at 3 p.m. - Tribute to actor and singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935)
Screening of EL DíA QUE ME QUIERAS (1935, Paramount) w/English subtitles
Tango Musical performance
Saide Abdala, Gardel Siglo XX
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