Lisette Oropesa In November, she continued her success by performing the role of Cleopatra in Michigan Opera Theatre's "Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar)" to acclaim. In 2013, the soprano sang the role of Pamina in "The Magic Flute" at Florida Grand Opera and reviews were universally positive, as noted in several: "Oropesa was beyond fantastic in her portrayal of Pamina." "Her aria 'Ach, ich fühl’s', sung as she believes Tamino no longer loves her, was genuinely moving ..." That summer resulted in Oropesa's continued operatic triumphs as Susanna in "Le nozze di Figaro" at The Santa Fe Opera: "Nothing in the evening surpassed
Agrippina (opera) hypocritical; Claudius is pompous, complacent, and something of a buffoon, while Poppaea, the first of Handel's sex kittens, is also a liar and a flirt. The freedmen Pallas and Narcissus are self-serving and salacious. All, however, have some redeeming features, and all have arias that express genuine emotion. The situations in which they find themselves are sometimes comic, but never farcical—like Mozart in the Da Ponte operas, Handel avoids laughing at his characters. In "Agrippina" the "da capo" aria is the musical form used to illustrate character in the context of the opera. The first four arias of the work