Name: Lisette Oropesa
Start: 2026-05-24T18:00:00+03:00
Location: Musiikkitalo

American soprano Lisette Oropesa, born in New Orleans to Cuban parents, is one of the most dazzling singers of her generation — an artist in whom virtuosity, intellect, and emotional truth are inseparable. Trained first as a flutist, she soon discovered that her voice was her true instrument. After winning the prestigious Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, she became one of the youngestmembers of the Metropolitan Opera roster, making her debut as Susanna in Le
Nozze di Figaro.
Today, Lisette Oropesa’s name is synonymous with refinement and brilliance in the repertoire of Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, and Bellini. Her Violetta in La Traviata is a finely drawn psychological portrait — each note breathing with pain, irony, and
desperate love; her Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor is a fragile balance between madness and poetry, “performed with such purity that the audience forgets to breathe” (The Guardian). “I love singing Violetta and Lucia — they fulfill me both musically and dramatically,” she said in an interview with Opera Today (2018). Critics praise her “silken, flexible timbre with rare depth” (Financial Times) and call her interpretations “a marvel of control and emotional honesty” (The New York Times).
Oropesa appears on the world’s leading stages — the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Opéra national de Paris, and the Bavarian State Opera — and is a frequent guest of the great international festivals. At the Salzburg Festival, she captivated audiences as Gilda in Rigoletto and Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, where critics noted “a rare fusion of brilliance and inner nobility that turns virtuosity into poetry” (Der Standard).
Off stage, Oropesa is an accomplished marathon runner and advocate for a healthy lifestyle — a singer who quite literally “sings with her whole body.” Her performances embody both discipline and poetry, strength and tenderness, turning every appearance into a moment when opera ceases to be art — and becomes life itself.