Baton Rouge’s Lisette Oropesa is at the top of the opera world

Oropesa stands in the lobby of the Met Opera House at Lincoln Center, where she is portray Violetta in La Traviata. (Photo by Jonathan Tichler/Metropolitan Opera)

'There are so many career paths, and mine has been slow and steady.'


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