Classical Latin Productions / Humberto Capiro

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.
https://fb.watch/uZH0I_vYTO/

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
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/06/11/The-Met-Orchestra-0800PM?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3Ze95RHWHRJ8nI-UX3su4rUCpUupq0Ee4AhWWL328Y4JIfsiJ4HijrHv4_aem_AfgrApInC3IVlYvwbJ79cOjcgJZBAMMSpSEXlvtBnqElDAhZQCWSmGf9GD4o4QpYK0Qy6tmCJKaLZ1chM2gh4c0v
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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
https://www.laculturalheritage.org/publicprograms?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3OwRexyGvQjQDF-eWwvpbw7xkuekqCrOiyIshtVK65HY-kQzPKCevWevQ_aem_ARUzeGHpHY8H4Pl7CO8NdCmyN81GJsPzpJicU7cqb8i1g_EAPdkVciyXDdvYbJJRGzwVj2THDSit76yrfaMuxYxE
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Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Preservation Society is a Public Benefit Nonprofit Corporation dedicated to fostering awareness and appreciation of the diverse legacies of our communities through the production of educational and cultural public programs, including exhibitions, film screenings, lectur...

05/11/2024

Congratulations to Cuban-Americans Anthony Léon (tenor) & Elena Villalón (soprano) who have been selected recipients of the 2024 Richard Tucker Opera Career Grant! - The Richard Tucker Music Foundation is driven by the belief that through recognizing and supporting the early careers of young American opera singers, we can insure the future of great opera. During 2020, the Richard Tucker Relief Fund sent grants to some of the recent winners of Tucker Study and Career Grants — the future of opera in America who needed our help until concert halls and opera houses were able to reopen.

Please help us support the future of opera in America.
https://www.richardtucker.org/?fbclid=IwAR0goqWDd-vac-xcOiLKjHw7bfwBS6KFvqZ0OdCyAQS5s956pNiuylKoV1A
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04/07/2024

A RECITAL & VOCAL CLASS FROM OUR CUBANITO-COLOMBIANO TENOR FROM RIVERSIDE CA! - 🚨DEADLINE TO APPLY TO SING IS MONDAY! - I’m so exited to announce that I have been invited by NATS LA to come and hold a workshop on Spanish language vocal music! I refuse to view this as a masterclass setting as I don’t feel like a master of anything, but more as an eternal student. However, I feel it is my responsibility as a professional Latino tenor to usher and care for the music in my mother tongue for its advancement into the future and inspire other generations. I most importantly, I want this event to be a place and time in which people who love the art form can come together to share ideas and grow collectively. I’m so excited! If you want to come sing, the deadline to apply is MONDAY!

The program will start with a short recital of Spanish music I will perform alongside my dear uncle and longtime collaborator, Dr. Elvin Rodríguez. Afterwards, the workshop will begin. I’ll see you there!


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🚨DEADLINE TO APPLY TO SING IS MONDAY!

I’m so exited to announce that I have been invited by NATS LA to come and hold a workshop on Spanish language vocal music! I refuse to view this as a masterclass setting as I don’t feel like a master of anything, but more as an eternal student. However, I feel it is my responsibility as a professional Latino tenor to usher and care for the music in my mother tongue for its advancement into the future and inspire other generations. I most importantly, I want this event to be a place and time in which people who love the art form can come together to share ideas and grow collectively. I’m so excited! If you want to come sing, the deadline to apply is MONDAY!

The program will start with a short recital of Spanish music I will perform alongside my dear uncle and longtime collaborator, Dr. Elvin Rodríguez. Afterwards, the workshop will begin. I’ll see you there!

02/18/2024

TODAY SHOW VIDEO: New Orleans’ forgotten history of opera music is being brought back to life after centuries of neglect through the discovery of lost works of local composers of color. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports in this week’s Sunday Spotlight.
https://www.today.com/video/new-orleans-operacreole-restores-lost-works-of-black-composers-204438085621
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New Orleans’ forgotten history of opera music is being brought back to life after centuries of neglect through the discovery of lost works of local composers of color. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports in this week’s Sunday Spotlight.