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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: LISETTE OROPESA PLAYLIST
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: various
- Recorded: various
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Lisette Oropesa, Juan Diego Florez, Javier Camarena, Brandon Hendrickson, Nadine Sierra, Vittorio Grigolo, Luca Pisaroni, Carlos Alvarez, Etienne Dupuis
- Conductor: various
- Orchestra: various
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OoV
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Lisette Oropesa (born September 29, 1983) is an American operatic soprano of Cuban ancestry.Her repertoire includes works from Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Wagner, Verdi, Bizet, Massenet and Puccini. With her lyric coloratura soprano voice, she has performed roles in her native Spanish and English, as well as German, French and Italian. She is particularly noted in the roles of Susanna, Gilda, Konstanze, Lucia and Manon.
Oropesa is a vegan, and runner/marathoner who has been featured in Runner’s World Magazine.In 2014, she co-contributed to Running, Eating, Thinking: A Vegan Anthology by Martin Rowe, where she talked about her weight loss journey and how she now follows a plant-based diet.
In 2015, she was a contributor to Master Singers: Advice from the Stage which includes interviews with opera singers about “analysis and awareness of their technique, art, interpretation and stagecraft”.
Early life and education
Oropesa was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her parents emigrated from Cuba.
She originally studied to be a flautist before her mother, a music teacher and former operatic soprano, suggested she audition for the voice faculty at the Louisiana State University School of Music. She joined the voice program under the guidance of Robert Grayson who was the chair of the Voice/Opera at the LSU School of Music.
Career Beginnings
Oropesa was a grand finals winner of the National Council Grand Finals at the Metropolitan Opera in 2005 and joined the Met’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, graduating in 2008. She made her Met debut in a small role in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s production of Idomeneo, conducted by James Levine in September 2006, and then sang First Lay-Sister in their new production of Suor Angelica.
As substitute, she sang her first leading role at the Metropolitan Opera, appearing as Susanna in five performances of Sir Jonathan Miller’s production of The Marriage of Figaro opposite Erwin Schrott’s Figaro in October 2007.