Lisette Oropesa

Vocalists — Soprano

Manager: William G. Guerri, Michael Benchetrit
Management Territory: Worldwide

“Soprano Lisette Oropesa made a superb company debut as Romilda, the object of both royal brothers' affection, her singing bright and precise…and her phrasing eloquently to the point.” —As Romilda in XERXES with San Francisco Opera, Joshua Kosman, The San Francisco Chronicle, November 1, 2011

"Mozart put some of his most taxing vocal writing in “Seraglio,’’ including two arias for Konstanze — the mournful “Traurigkeit ward mir zum Lose’’ and the defiant “Martern aller Arten’’ — one after the other in Act II. Oropesa handled both with blistering power and assurance, as well as a range of vocal colors and emotional shadings. She is one to watch." —As Konstanze in DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL at Tanglewood Music Festival, David Weininger, The Boston Globe, July 26, 2010

The soprano Lisette Oropesa, 24, a winner of the Met’s National Council Auditions in 2005 and currently in the company’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, took over the role. Before Tuesday, she had sung microscopic roles in Met productions of “Idomeneo” and “Suor Angelica.” Ms. Oropesa’s last-minute elevation turns out to be a more interesting story than a pregnant Susanna. She proved a vocally and physically agile Susanna, with an attractively silky, flexible timbre. Her fine comic instincts and cheerfully bright sound put her in command of the stage during much of the first two acts. But she conveyed emotional depth too, most notably in her moving, dark-hued account of “Deh vieni, non tardar” in the final act. Putting Ms. Oropesa in a cast that already included Erwin Schrott, a youthful Uruguayan bass, as Figaro, was a smart move: this nine-year-old Jonathan Miller production, now stage-directed by Robin Guarino, has worked best when the casts are not only vocally commanding, but young and trim as well. —As Susanna in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at the Metropolitan Opera, The New York Times, October 4, 2007

About

Soprano Lisette Oropesa has been hailed by The New York Times as an artist with a “magnetic” stage presence, and an “attractively silky, and flexible timbre.” She has already appeared on concert and opera stages throughout Europe and North America, and has been identified as an artist on the rise. The San Francisco Chronicle said: “Soprano Lisette Oropesa made a superb company debut as Romilda…her singing bright and precise and her phrasing eloquently to the point.”

In the 2012/13 season, Ms. Oropesa returns to The Metropolitan Opera as . . . Gilda in Michael Mayer’s new production of “Rigoletto” and will be heard as the Woodbird in Robert Lepage’s production of “Siegfried”. Further appearances in the season include a return to Arizona Opera in the title role of “Lucia di Lammermoor” and her role and company debut with Michigan Opera Theatre as Cleopatra in “Giulio Cesare”. She finishes the season with her company debut at Santa Fe Opera as Susanna in “Le nozze di Figaro”.

Last season, Ms. Oropesa made her company and role debut with San Francisco Opera in “Xerxes”, and was heard as Miranda in the new Baroque pastiche “The Enchanted Island” at the Metropolitan Opera. She returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Ismene in Mozart’s “Mitridate, re di Ponto”, the role she sang in her company debut when the production premiered in the summer of 2011. She achieved great success when she joined Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony on short notice for Carmina Burana, and made her Pittsburgh Opera debut as Konstanze in “Die Entführung aus dem Serail”.

Ms. Oropesa is a graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and was a winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2005. She has developed a strong relationship with The Metropolitan Opera, including her major role debut as Susanna in “Le nozze di Figaro” in 2007 to great acclaim. She has been heard in productions including “Orfeo ed Euridice” and “Idomeneo”, and the final performances of Otto Schenk’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” as Woglinde and the Forest Bird. She has been heard in new productions at The Met including “Iphigénie en Tauride” and has been featured in The Met’s Live! in HD series in productions of “La Rondine” (new production), “Manon Lescaut”, “Hánsel und Gretel”, “Il trittico” (new production), “The Enchanted Island” (new production), and “Das Rheingold” (new production). Additionally, she has been heard in concert at The Met for the 125th Anniversary Gala, and with the Met Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in performances of Brahms’ “Liebeslieder-Walzer” with James Levine and Daniel Barenboim at the piano.

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