Lisette Oropesa: People show more skin, they get more likes
mainThe Met’s fastest-rising soprano is the latest to face Zsolt Bognar in Living the Classical Life.
She is wonderfully strraightforward, addressing every question head-on, no matter how personal it might be. ‘My Instagram is a mixture of me in glamorous gowns…. and me sweaty and disgusting from running with no makeup on. On Instagram people show more skin, they get more likes. I’m sorry about that.’
She is wonderfully engaging.
Watch.
Very engaging, but to me she has problems at the top of her register.
I heard her Traviata at the Met and her Eb at the end of Sempre Libera was one of the loudest and most sustained sounds I’ve heard there this year. I think you are being pretentious.
Well, it shouldn’t have been there in the first place — and I know her — and I’m sorry she did that. But she is definitely *someone. “
I was expressing a personal opinion, how is that pretentious?
Maybe you can show her how to do it then?
lol
Why the cynicism? It was my opinion.
She’s not “the Met’s” anything. She’s an international and fully independent artist, and quite wonderful.
Her comments on weight and beauty make a lot of sense, and resemble in many ways the views of Jamie Barton, another singer I find very attractive, even though physically the two are quite different.
I saw/heard her in April 2016 in Munich as Konstanze in Mozart´s Entführung. It was pure joy, together with Pavol Breslik.
Her Nannetta from the Met HD broadcast of Falstaff in 2013 was unforgettable. Pure joy!
Her Lucia is unforgettable. Let’s hope her Glyndebourne Konstanzes will go ahead …
Given that deaths in Italy have plateaued, there is a good chance that at least part of the season will go ahead.
yeah, and?!?
Very enjoyable to hear and see her speak about so many things, she’s such an awesome singer but now I feel I know a little about who she is as a person…very lovely!