Lisette is interviewed in the Irish Times

Thank you so much to Michael Dervan fortalking with me about my time here in Vienna and the circumstances around me not being able to make my Ireland debut at the Wexford Festival this year due to Covid. 

“The other thing that we have to do is maintain a ledger of every person that we’ve been in contact with every day. If you spend more than 15 minutes with someone, you have to write their name down, just so that if there is a positive test, we have contacts who can be traced.”

Audiences must fill out contact-tracing details, too. “Every person who comes in and out of that building is being traced. Which I think is great. Because if and when we’ve had a positive case pop up, of which there have been a couple, they’re able to isolate those people. And anyone who was in contact with those people has to have a test, and if they’re positive they have to quarantine, so that there are no positive cases in the house. For that I feel very safe, I feel very appreciative.”

Lisette Oropesa Portrait
Lisette Oropesa

Lyric coloratura soprano Lisette Oropesa is one of the most in-demand artists on the stages of the world, performing at leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, and Opéra National de Paris.

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Manon

Opernhaus Zürich

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La traviata

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

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La traviata

Bayerische Staatsoper

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