2018
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma - Rigoletto
Nov, 2018 - Dec, 2018OPERA/ “Rigoletto” e le camicie nere
Purissima l’emissione di Lisette Oropesa, una Gilda che ha letteralmente incantato il pubblico.The purity of Lisette Oropesa's performance as Gilda literally enchanted the audience.— Giuseppe Pennisi • Il SussidiarioOpera national de Paris - L'elisir d'amore
Oct, 2018 - Nov, 2018Avec « L’Élixir d’Amour », l’Opéra Bastille déroule le tapis rouge à Gaetano Donizetti
Le personnage d’Adina, riche et belle fermière, campé par Lisette Oropesa est pétillant à souhait. La soprano virevolte comme une elfe sur le plateau pleine de charme, de malice et fait des étincelles vocales dans le registre du belcanto.The character of Adina, a rich and beautiful farmer, portrayed by Lisette Oropesa, is delightfully vivacious. The soprano whirls around the stage like an elf, full of charm and cunning, and creates vocal sparks in the bel canto register.— Jean-Christophe Mary • Putsch MediaOpéra national de Paris - Les Huguenots
Aug, 2018 - Oct, 2018PARIS/Opéra de Paris: LES HUGUENOTS von Giacomo Meyerbeer PREMIERE
Diese werden angeführt durch Lisette Oropesa (statt der ursprünglich angesagten Diana Damrau) als exzellente Marguerite de Valois. Ihre berüchtigt schwierige Arie „O beau pays de la Touraine“, mit wunderbaren aber sehr sehr langen Koloraturen, war der Höhepunkt des Abends.These are led by Lisette Oropesa (instead of the originally announced Diana Damrau) as the excellent Marguerite de Valois. Her notoriously difficult aria "O beau pays de la Touraine", with wonderful but very, very long coloraturas, was the highlight of the evening.— Waldemar Kamer • BeckmesserArena di Verona - Concert
Aug, 2018Verona: una “Trilogia popolare” ammantata di stelle
Gilda è il soprano statunitense Lisetta Oropesa, reduce dal recente successo in Adina al Rossini Opera Festival, che stupisce per plasticità di modulazione e pulizia del fraseggio.Gilda is the American soprano Lisetta Oropesa, coming off a recent success as Adina at the Rossini Opera Festival, who amazes with her flexibility in modulation and the cleanliness of her phrasing.— Matteo Pozzato • Le Salon Musicale
Rossini Opera Festival - Adina
Jul, 2018 - Aug, 2018A box of mixed chocolates
Lisette Oropesa makes her Rossini Opera Festival debut fifteen years after another American – Joyce DiDonato – last brought Adina to the Pesaro stage. She is a vigorous and youthful performer who easily carries the part of the flirtatious and love-struck heroine. She moves athletically, having highly capable performance skills which see her “hamming it up” at several points in the opera. Her voice is a powerful instrument which easily fills the theatre and often has to be held back or risk swamping her fellow performers. Its upper range is silvery toned but the lower register is the real delight: rich and creamy, it has great agility and pin-point accuracy. This was a very convincing performance, particularly in the scene in which she weeps out her grief on the shoulder of one of the non-singing cast, amid gasps, tears and hysterics, earning roars of laughter from the audience.None— Gregory Pritchard • Concerto NetRossini Opera Festival - Concert
Aug, 2018Rof, il concerto di Lisette Oropesa incanta il pubblico
PESARO – Meditativa prima, poi appassionata, frizzante, esuberante, scatenata, travolgente, incontenibile. Lisette Oropesa, soprano statunitense nata a New Orleans, in Luisiana, dove si respira cultura europea, soprattutto francese, è stata protagonista di uno dei concerti più memorabili nella storia del Rossini Opera Festival, che pure nei suoi 39 anni di momenti indimenticabili ne ha vissuti un’infinità. Mancava un concerto come quello della protagonista di Adina che non ha tradito le grandi attese.PESARO – Meditative at first, then passionate, lively, exuberant, unleashed, overwhelming, irrepressible. Lisette Oropesa, an American soprano born in New Orleans, Louisiana, where there's a strong European culture, especially French, was the star of one of the most memorable concerts in the history of the Rossini Opera Festival, which, in its 39 years of unforgettable moments, has experienced a multitude. There hadn’t been a concert like that of the protagonist of Adina, which did not betray the great expectations.— Luciano Murgia • pu24.itTeatro Real - Lucia di Lammermoor
May, 2018 - Jul, 2018El Teatro Real enloquece con 'Lucia di Lammermoor'
La locura de la protagonista, interpretada por la soprano estadounidense de ascendencia cubana Lisette Oropesa, se ha trasladado al público del coliseo madrileño, que ha roto en aplausos y en gritos de \"brava\" en el culmen de su enajenación.The madness of the protagonist, played by the American soprano of Cuban descent Lisette Oropesa, has spread to the audience of the Madrid coliseum, who have erupted in applause and shouts of "brava" at the climax of her derangement.— Europa Press • Europa PressLA Opera - Rigoletto
Apr, 2018 - May, 2018BWW Review: RIGOLETTO at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Lisette Oropesa was a truly magnificent Gilda. She portrayed her character's girlishness, innocence, and obsessive love. Her voice was clear and bell-like, especially above the staff. Her "Caro Nome" ("Dear name") was most impressive with its radiant, silvery tones and tasteful decoration. Amazingly, she finished the main part of her aria, climbed a long flight of stairs, and immediately began the trill that ends the scene. Twentieth century operagoers told tales of the legendary Erna Berger and her long trills. Twenty-first century patrons may have their own legend-in-the-making with Oropesa. She definitely is a singer to watch.None— Maria Nockin • Broadway WorldLA Opera - Orfeo ed Eurydice
Mar, 2018BWW Review: ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Dressed in white with a billowing cape as the deceased Eurydice, Lisette Oropesa looked and moved like one of the dancers. Her sounds were liquid silver and she seemed to be an amazingly graceful creature from another world. She sang through a veil at times, but it never marred the focus of her sound. My only thought was that her part was too short.None— Maria Nockin • Broadway WorldTucson Desert Song Festival - Recital and Masterclass
Jan, 2018Lisette Oropesa sings at Tucson Desert Song Festival
Leonard Bernstein’s 1949 “Two Love Songs” tell of a love that is stronger than life and can weld two souls together so that they sing a single melody. Oropesa’s butter cream tones were completely unified with Borowitz’s shimmering melodic strains. She finished the first half of the recital with an exquisite rendition of the “Vocalise” that Camille Saint-Saens wrote on a visit to Egypt in 1901. It is a wonderful text-free song that allows the coloratura to use some of her most intricate and difficult maneuvers. For Oropesa, it was a pièce de résistance.None— Maria Nockin • Opera Today
Bayerische Staatsoper - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Metropolitan Opera - Hansel and Gretel
Nov, 2017 - Jan, 2018Met’s colorful, if gruesome, “Hansel and Gretel” returns with its seasonal “magic”
Soprano Lisette Oropesa as Gretel sang with slimmed-down, girlish tone in the early scenes, limiting her projection of words and emotions, but found her dramatic mojo (and piercing high notes) in the climactic final act.None— David Wright • New York Classical Review
