Lyric Opera 2023-2024 Issue 3 - Daughter of the Regiment

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 26 LISETTE OROPESA MARIE Lyric debut The soprano is known for leading roles at major opera houses worldwide. Her major successes include Violetta in La traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, and the title role in Massenet’s Manon at the Metropolitan Opera; the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Amalia in I Masnadieri at Teatro alla Scala; Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Lucia di Lammermoor, and La traviata at the Wiener Staatsoper; Konstanze, Amalia, and Violetta at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Marguerite de Valois in Les Huguenots, Adina in L’elisir d’amore, and Ophélie in Hamlet at the Opera national de Paris; Lucia di Lammermoor, La traviata, Alcina and Gilda at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Lucia, La traviata, and Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia at the Teatro Real Madrid; Rodelinda and La traviata at the Gran Theatre del Liceu; and Lucia at the Salzburger Festspiele and the Opernhaus Zürich. In the U.S., she has performed at LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and Opera Philadelphia, among other theaters. In 2019, she won the Beverly Sills and Richard Tucker awards and in 2023, she won the prestigious “Franco Abbiati” award from the National Music Critics Association of Italy. Her latest album, French Bel Canto Arias, has received multiple awards and continues to top the operatic classical charts. LAWRENCE BROWNLEE TONIO Previously at Lyric: Five roles since 2015/16, most recently Ory/ Le Comte Ory (2022/23) and Count Almaviva/ The Barber of Seville (2019/20). Last season, the celebrated American tenor performed a program with fellow Rossini expert Michael Spyres titled Amici e Rivali at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and premiered a program titled Rising with pianist Kevin J. Miller, performing songs with texts drawn from writers of the Harlem Renaissance. He recently made his role debut as Rodrigo in Rossini’s Otello as part of Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O22. Other highlights include Elvino in Bellini’s La sonnambula at Teatro Real in Madrid, Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and Tamino in a new production of Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera. He has recently dazzled audiences in Amsterdam as Don Ramiro/ La Cenerentola and in Houston as Fernand/ La favorite . Upcoming engagements include Count Almaviva (San Francisco, New York), Arturo/ I puritani (Zurich), and Edgardo/ Lucia di Lammermoor (Tokyo). Brownlee has starred in bel canto repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera ( I puritani , La Cenerentola , The Barber of Seville , Rinaldo , La donna del lago ), in Zurich ( Le Comte Ory ), Paris ( Don Pasquale ), and Munich ( Semiramide ), among others. He was featured as Don Ramiro/ La Cenerentola at Lyric in 2015/16. RONNITA MILLER MARQUISE Previously at Lyric: Erda/ Siegfried (2018/19). This season, the Grammy-nominated mezzo- soprano will sing Ella in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X with Seattle Opera. On the concert stage, she joins the Rotterdam Philharmonic on tour for Die Walküre, singing Grimgerde under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Additionally, she joins the New World Symphony for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the Tucson Symphony for Verdi’s Requiem. In the summer of 2022, Miller joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Schwertleite in Die Walküre at the Hollywood Bowl. She then returned to San Francisco Opera as Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin before reprising the role of Ella with Opera Omaha. She also returned to Atlanta Opera as Erda in Das Rheingold. In concert, she appeared twice during the season at Carnegie Hall, with the American Symphony Orchestra as Gaea in Strauss’s Daphne and with Oberlin College as the mezzo soloist for Dett’s The Ordering of Moses. Miller was a member of the ensemble at Deutsche Oper Berlin for seven seasons. ALESSANDRO CORBELLI SULPICE Previously at Lyric: Nine roles since 1986/87, most recently Dr. Bartolo/ The Barber of Seville (2019/20) and Don Alfonso/ Così fan tutte (2017/18). Recent highlights for the Turin-born baritone include Michonnet/ Adriana Lecouvreur at La Scala, Don Magnifico/ La Cenerentola in Zurich and Vienna, and Dr. Bartolo/ The Barber of Seville at Arena di Verona, Monte Carlo, Glyndebourne, and San Francisco Opera. He sang the role at Lyric in 2013/14. Other recent successes include Don Pasquale (Vienna, Glyndebourne, DVD), Taddeo/ L’italiana in Algeri (Salzburg), Dulcamara/ L’elisir d’amore (Lyric, Metropolitan Opera, Madrid, Leipzig, Barcelona, San Francisco, and Houston, among other houses), and Sulpice/ La fille du régiment (Covent Garden, Paris, Metropolitan Opera). Corbelli is also renowned as Michonnet/ Adriana Lecouvreur (Berlin, London, Paris), Don Alfonso/ Così fan tutte (Vienna), Falstaff (Toulouse, Glyndebourne), and Gianni Schicchi (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Turin). In 2017 he sang his first Artist pro les