{"id":43753,"date":"2022-07-19T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/?p=43753"},"modified":"2022-07-19T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:37:46","slug":"during-an-opera-performance-a-man-stood-up-from-the-audience-and-did-something-that-surprised-and-leaved-everyone-speechless-including-the-artists-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armenia23.ru\/?p=43753","title":{"rendered":"During an opera performance, a man stood up from the audience and did something that surprised and leaved everyone speechless including the artists on stage."},"content":{"rendered":"

A young opera enthusiast went forward to be the Alfredo to the renowned soprano’s Violetta during her Verdi recital, leaving her speechless.<\/p>\n

Young Verdi admirer bravely went up and performed the tenor part from the audience when he saw his favorite soprano soloist was performing without a duet partner.<\/p>\n

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As an encore for her performance at the Verdi Festival in Parma, Italy, renowned operatic soprano Lisette Oropesa sang Violetta’s ‘Sempre Libera’ (Always Free) from Verdi’s La Traviata.<\/p>\n

The tenor portraying Alfredo is typically off stage during the opera’s staging, as if he were singing to Violetta from beneath her balcony outside.<\/p>\n

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No tenor was present because this was a solo presentation. The Cuban-American soprano’s longtime admirer Liu Jianwei, a student at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Nicolini di Piacenza, was present to see the concert.<\/p>\n

He made the decision to join in during the second bar because no male singer answered to Oropesa’s Violetta in the first.<\/p>\n

As a young tenor fan contributed his voice to Oropesa’s recital, her expression was a picture. While Violetta’s spellbound ‘Oh!’ is included in the original score (see above), Oropesa’s ‘Grazie’ was specifically written for this unexpected moment.<\/p>\n

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On Chinese social media, Liu has been hailed as a \u2018hero\u2019for offering the tenor part from the rear of the auditorium.<\/p>\n

I stood up to sing because Lisette Oropesa is an artist I love very much, and I just so happened to have learnt this opera before,’ Liu wrote on Weibo after his performance went viral.<\/p>\n

He did, however, add that he wouldn’t take the chance of repeating this singing again. Liu said in a video that ‘it is clearly not something worthy of pride, nor something worthy of being encouraged.’<\/p>\n

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Please refrain from interjecting when performers are singing on stage. It’s rude behavior,’ he continued. ‘Don’t copy me, and I won’t repeat this in the future,’<\/p>\n

Liu went to apologize to Oropesa after the concert, and she seemed really appreciative of her impromptu duet partner, signing his autograph and taking pictures with him (see below).<\/p>\n

Since then, the video has been shared widely on social media. Babatunde Hiphopera, a popular TikTok user and opera singer, attracted 1 million views to his video on the app with the caption: ‘Friendly caution, do not attempt this with other sopranos.’<\/p>\n

Since then, there has been a huge demand for the whole performance footage, which you can view excerpts of below.<\/p>\n