At La Scala, soprano Lisette Oropesa

After her recent successes in Rome in 'Sonnambula' and her previous La Scala successes in 'Lucia di Lammermoor' and 'Capuleti e Montecchi', here is soprano Lisette Oropesa at La Scala; not with opera arias (heard by her on 29 April) but with a richly interesting layout, between Italy and Spain. More music, medieval, in the cycle at S. Satiro, while admiring the false perspectives of Bramante. "Brazil Night' at the Blue Note jazz club, with Toco's new album.

On the 19th at La Scala, an excellent opportunity to hear soprano Lisette Oropesa in recital, with pianist Beatrice Benzi. After her recent triumph in Rome in "Sonnambula" and those at La Scala in "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Capuleti e Montecchi", the American soprano of Cuban origin presents a well-chosen programme, introducing us to chamber arias by Bellini, Donizetti, Mercadante; then to the great Spanish and Cuban composers, such as Falla, Nin, Rodrigo, concluding with the famous zarzuelas.

In one of Milan's hidden gems, the Church of Santa Maria presso San Satiro - which houses Donato Bramante's famous mock apse perspective, just a few steps away from the Duomo - kicks off on the 21st 'Musica Antica a San Satiro', the six-concert series running until 6 June that the

Società del Quartetto dedicates a rare programme of sacred and secular music, with a rich variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles. In collaboration with the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano. Sacred music in England in the 14th century is the programme of the first concert, under the direction of Claudia Caffagni. "Nobody plays this repertoire, because the manuscript tradition of the English repertoire was massacred by the Anglican Reformation," Caffagni reminds us. "The programme is the result of almost a year of work with the students of my palaeography course, on original sources, entirely transcribed by us," she continues. On the 23rd, the evening is dedicated to harpsichord pages and religious songs by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Böhm, with Kohei Takeoka at the harpsichord and Federica Leombruni, mezzo-soprano.