Hamlet: "A vos jeux, mes amis" "Ophélie's Mad Scene" (Lisette Oropesa) 

She's heads and shoulders better than anyone who's singing the lyric-coloratura repertoire at the Met. She's a throwback to the Golden Age of singing. She has a perfect mastery of the architecture of this music. She understands portamento perfectly, and she understands the give and take of rubato. She sings coloratura passages effortlessly and legato, without resorting to the aspiration and gargling that is the current fashion. She also has the most perfect trill of any modern-day singer. The more I listen to her, the more I love her.

I'm too old to go constructing a new pedestal--my Callas and Sills pedestals are decades old. But I now must accept the respect the presence of a new great one. I am in awe and in love.

After all the years of "star" sopranos who can't get through a score without cheating or mangling the music, a REAL singer who is a throwback to the Bel Canto era!! Absolutely spectacular.....and the trills❤️❤️❤️

This is really great, possibly one of the best renditions I've seen one of this much recorded scene! The voice is not only very beautiful, it's used with the most seamless and effortless technique, and everything is sung as it should, with no serious flaws or half-baked improvisations. This really deserves being called Golden Age singing.

Superlative. The voice has a pathos and gravitas combined with spot on articulation, acuti, trills---a beautifully moving rendition. Brava, Lisette!

Fabuleux! Quelle maitrise, quel controle, et quelle émotion....quel bonheur de retrouver enfin une vraie artiste!!! À part Callas, cet air n'a jamais été aussi beau et interessant. Une étoile est née

She is simply the best voice at this time. She is almost Perfect ! And, in fact, She is able to made us travel to the Classic Age of Belcanto , probably that was how Opera sounds at XIX century...BRAVA LISETTE Y GRACIAS !!!

Both, Lisette and Natalie are the best singing this Aria.....Love it

wonderful wonderfull! thank you Lisette Oropesa for letting me hear again great singing in our days! this last high note !!!!!!!!!! is to die for!

Mme Oropesa est le chant incarné des rêves d'aficionados:as les plus enfouis. Elle chante comme une planète sur orbite, tranquille, légère et miraculeusement magnifique. Humains, priez !

Oh my god !! haven't hear you sing in a while and your voice has become deeper and so harmonically rich it's divine

When you fall in love with a great voice for the first time. I feel the same way about Oropesa as I did when I first heard Sills live late in 1969 or Pavarotti a few years later at his first Carnegie Hall recital. There have been many more singers since those first few years of opera love. I felt the same way about Oropesa the first time I heard her as Nanetta in FALSTAFF. Since then it has been steady admiration and fascination as this wonderful soprano has show her wide variety of roles and musical styles. There's not much that I can add to what's been said here. Except her sense of any musical structure is faultless and original. She shapes phrases into the most musical statements. I can't wait to her what she'll do next. Fortunately, the rest of the world is catching up. Brava, Lisette.

Fabulous Lisette.

I love her higher notes, the approach to them is thrilling, with a wonderful vibrato. I won't compare her to my favourite sopranos. She has joined their ranks! Brava Lisette xx

A great Ophélie, fragile and sensitive, deep musical feeling, wonderful Fairytale singing!

Stunningly beautiful. The first soprano since Sutherland (her version on the "Art of the Prima Donna" will never be surpassed) to satisfy me ear.

This makes me cry. Lisette Oropesa sounds great. I feel for Ophelie.

This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. So sublime, and Lisettes interpretation is marvelous. What an artist

Just saw her twice at the Royal Opera House in London singing Lucia and she was absolutely stunning.

Una virtuosa con alma y emoción en el canto. Por fin alguien que emociona!! BRAVA!!!

Régis Mengus è bellissimo.

Magnifico !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Degna erede della Sutherland e della Dessay. Voce bellissima. Tecnica superlativa e interpretazione magnifica. Oropesa Superstar. Ascoltare questa voce mi riempie di gioia

OUTSTANDING, REMARKABLE... BRAAAAVAAAA!!! LISETTE BRAAAAVAAAA!!!

Lisette Oropesa, Sabine Devieilhe, and Natalie Dessay are, for me, the best for this aria.

HER TECHNIQUE APPEARS TO BE PURE MARCHESI

This is absolute perfection. I can’t find one single flaw here. Stunning!!!!

There's something so magical and great in her voice. I love it!

Just saw her in that part at Bastille opera house last week (March 2023). She was fabulous and so was her partner Ludovic Tézier as Hamlet. A memorable moment. ❤❤❤

wow.....

sublime parfait magnifique exceptionnel je suis fan

Magnifique !! Vocalement exemplaire , et pour l'interprétation aussi .Mieux que Dessay ( qui intellectualise beaucoup trop comme toujours , là où il n'y a pas lieu .)Mieux que Devielle dont la voix est insipide .Je reste cependant toujours très attaché à la version de Callas un jour de 1956 à Milan en live : fabuleuse version très engagée ,très franche dans les attaques ,et avec la meilleure version de la romance " pâle et blonde dort sous l'eau profonde la Willis au regard de feu ..." Car c'est la seule à savoir restituer ce mystère et créer une atmosphère surnaturelle et hantée de cette page musicale .

Bravissima!

Spectacular!

Splendide, inspirée par Desay manifestement, et avec raison! Bravo Lisette!

PRRFEITAAAA! Sem defeitos

This version is beautiful especially since it’s being sung by a real coloratura soprano. Nowadays lyric and dramatic sopranos are singing just about everything regardless of fach and it shows.

Dieu du Ciel ! Et ces trilles ........

BRAVA

Hello, Massenet, would you happen to have the complete broadcast of the whole opera ? Thanks in advance.

she truly sounds like a bird with her piano trills