Lisette Oropesa

Soprano Lisette Oropesa was born in New Orleans and studied at the Louisiana State University, before joining the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She began her international career at the age of 22 when she made her debut as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Met, where she has since appeared in more than 100 performances, in roles such as Violetta (La traviata), Nannetta (Falstaff), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Gilda (Rigoletto) and the title role in Manon. She also appears regularly at other leading international opera houses, among them La Scala, Milan, the Vienna and Bavarian State Operas, the Paris Opéra, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the opera houses of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington and Santa Fe.

In the 2021/22 season she sang Violetta and Gilda at Covent Garden, Violetta in Verona, Munich and Los Angeles, the title role in Handel’s oratorio Theodora in Vienna, Milan, Paris, Luxembourg and Essen, Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) at La Scala, and Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) and Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Vienna State Opera. She also made her debut as Lucia at the Zurich Opera.

In autumn 2022 she will make her role debut as Elvira (I puritani) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and appear in bel canto concerts in Japan. Other future engagements include the title role in Alcina at Covent Garden, Gilda at the Met, Amalia (I masnadieri) in Munich, Ophélie (Hamlet) in Paris and Lucia at La Scala.

Lisette Oropesa regularly performs in opera productions and concerts in the Spanish cities of Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Bilbao and Valencia. At the Teatro Real in Madrid she has sung Violetta, Lucia and Gilda and at the Liceu in Barcelona she has sung Violetta and Rodelinda. She has also appeared as Gilda at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Rome Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the Paris Opéra and in Vienna. In 2017 she sang Norina (Don Pasquale) for Glyndebourne Festival.

In concert she has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras, and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Ravinia Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, the Chicago Bach Project and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York.

She has worked with conductors including Riccardo Muti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gatti, Fabio Luisi, Ivor Bolton and William Christie.

Her discography includes the critically acclaimed Mozart album Ombra Compagna (Pentatone, 2021), a complete recording of La traviata (Pentatone, 2022) and the song recital albums Within/Without and Aux Filles du désert.