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.

—  Luciano Murgia  •  pu24.it

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.

—  Gregory Pritchard  •  Concerto Net

Brilla l’astro di Lisette Oropesa, vera trionfatrice della serata, al suo debutto in Arena. Una voce angelicata che corre alla perfezione in teatro, sempre con morbidezza e con una delicatezza e sincerità espressiva commovente. Speriamo di poterla risentire presto qui…magari Violetta nel 2019.

—  Francesco Lodola  •  Ieri Oggi Domaini Opera

In Act 2, Lisette Oropesa stopped the show with dazzling coloratura as Marguerite de Valois. It’s an unashamed showpiece and Oropesa pulled out all the stops: girlishly carefree throughout (Marguerite was only 19 at the time of the action, a few days after the wedding which made her Queen of Navarre), elegantly romantic in “Ô beau pays de la Touraine” and extremely naughty in “Ah! Si j’étais coquette”. Oropesa comprehensively conquered the hearts of the Paris audience, a particularly extraordinary performance given that she was a late replacement for Diana Damrau and only had three weeks to learn the role.

—  David Karlin  •  Bachtrack