Lisette Oropesa

Biography

Soprano Lisette Oropesa has been a fixture of New York's Metropolitan Opera since making her debut there in 2007. In between international appearances, Oropesa finds time to compete in marathon races. In 2005, Oropesa won the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Grand Finals and joined the Met's Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, completing the program in 2008. By that time, she had already made her debut on the Met stage in 2007 as a substitute Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Oropesa has gone on to appear in many Metropolitan Opera productions. In addition to various operatic recordings and videos, Oropesa has issued two solo recitals, Within/Without (2017) and Aux filles du désert (2018). A 2025 recording highlighted her starring role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor under conductor Fabrizio Maria Carminati.