Lisette Oropesa is one of the most outstanding lyric coloratura sopranos of her generation, and performs at the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala, Milan, the Vienna and Bavarian State Operas, the Paris Opéra and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Her extensive repertory centres on bel canto operas, works by Mozart and Handel and French operas.
In the 2025/26 season she made her debut at the Berlin State Opera as Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), sang Massenet’s Manon at the Zurich Opera House and took on the role of Elvira in new productions of I puritani at the Metropolitan Opera and the Paris Opéra. Her other appearances include(d) Amalia (I masnadieri) in Madrid, Violetta (La traviata) at the Bavarian State Opera, Norma at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Liù (Turandot) at the Arena di Verona. In the forthcoming season she will return to London as Elvira and to New York in the title role of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda.
She has thrilled audiences at the Met, Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Vienna State Opera and other opera houses with her interpretation of Verdi’s Violetta (La traviata). Her other signature roles include Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, which she sang at the Salzburg Festival in 2022 in a concert performance. She most recently appeared in Salzburg in 2024 as Ophélie in Thomas’s Hamlet and in 2025 as Maria Stuarda.
Her repertory also includes Gilda (Rigoletto), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Handel’s Alcina, Marie (La Fille du régiment), Marguerite (Faust) and Marguerite de Valois (Les Huguenots). She has also delighted audiences worldwide in concerts and recitals.
Her discography includes the two song recital recordings Within / Without and Aux filles du désert, Ombra compagna, which features concert arias by Mozart, the album French Bel Canto Arias, Mis amores son las flores, featuring zarzuela arias, and recordings of La traviata, I puritani and Lucia di Lammermoor.
Lisette Oropesa was born in New Orleans, studied in Louisiana and graduated from the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Her awards include the Premio Abbiati and the 2024 International Opera Award as ‘Female Singer of the Year’. In 2023 she received the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
