Highly acclaimed for her “passionate intensity and remarkable vocal beauty,†the Grammy Award winning Isabel Leonard continues to thrill audiences both in the opera house and on the concert stage. In repertoire that spans from Vivaldi to Mozart to Thomas Ades, she has graced the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, Salzburg Festival, Bavarian State Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, the title roles in Griselda, La Périchole, and Der Rosenkavalier, as well as Sesto in both Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Handel’s Giulio Cesare.
She has appeared with some of the foremost conductors of her time: James Levine, Valery Gergiev, Charles Dutoit, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, Edo de Waart, James Conlon, Andris Nelsons, and Harry Bicket with the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and Vienna Philharmonic, among others.
Ms. Leonard is in constant demand as a recitalist and is on the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Hall. She is a recent Grammy Award winner for Thomas Ades’ The Tempest (Best Opera Recording) and the recipient of the 2013 Richard Tucker Award. She recently joined the supporters of the Prostate Cancer Foundation to lend her voice in honor of her father who died from the disease when she was in college.
Isabel Leonard Biography / Wiki
| Name | Isabel Leonard |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | February 18, 1982 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 41 |
| Deathday |
Isabel Leonard Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rosina | 2014-11-22 | A youthful cast brings Rossini’s immortal comedy to sparkling life, led by Christopher Maltman as Figaro, the resourceful barber and man-about-town … |
| Metropolitan Opera Live — Marnie | Marnie | 2018-11-10 | Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a bea… |
| Mozart: Così fan tutte | Dorabella | 2009-01-01 | German director Claus Guth´s Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy was concluded at the 2009 Salzburg Festival with Cosà fan tutte featuring a starry cast includi… |
| The Metropolitan Opera: Cinderella | 2022-01-01 | In this New Year’s Day performance, Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon, a hit of the 2017–18 season, is presented with… | |
| The Metropolitan Opera: Dialogues des Carmélites | Blanche De La Force | 2019-05-11 | Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads an accomplished ensemble in Poulenc’s devastating modern masterpiece of faith and martyrdom. Isabel … |
| The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte | Dorabella | 2014-04-26 | Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy about testing the ties of love. Susanna Phillips … |
| The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest | Miranda | 2012-11-09 | Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last play, in Robert Lepage’s brilliantly inventive p… |
| The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne Auf Naxos | 2022-03-12 | The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchant… | |
| Met Opera 2022/23: Der Rosenkavalier | 2023-04-15 | … | |
| Jules César | Sesto | 2011-02-10 | Live performance 10 February 2011 at the Palais Garnier. Emmanuelle Haïm conducting Le Concert d’Astrée and les Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Pari… |
| The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro | Cherubino | 2014-10-18 | Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’s timeless social comedy in a manor house … |
| Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites | Blanche de la Force | 2019-05-11 | Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard … |
| Giulio Cesare in Egitto | Sesto | 2012-08-24 | … |
| Don Giovanni | Elvira | 2017-01-01 | Considered by some to be the greatest opera ever written, Don Giovanni was the second product of an incredibly fruitful collaboration between two geni… |
| The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata | Self – Host | 2017-03-11 | La Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a favorite of generations of operagoers. In his approach t… |
| Tosca | Self – Host | 2018-01-27 | Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thrilled Met audiences when it rang in the New Year… |
| Verdi: Aida | Self – Host | 2018-10-06 | With its cast of hundreds, thrilling score, and sweeping tale of love and heroics in ancient Egypt, Verdi’s Aida has long been a fixture on the stag… |
| Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood | 2018-12-28 | In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—dedicated its entire 2018 seas… | |
| The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette | Stéphano | 2007-12-15 | The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna playing the star-crossed young couple. Th… |
| Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala | 2020-04-25 | In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an u… | |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Tosca | Presenter | 2018-01-27 | Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thrilled Met audiences when it rang in the New Year… |
| The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto | Presenter | 2022-01-29 | One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era… |
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