
Isabel Leonard
Acting
1982-02-18 - Present
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.
Credits

MaestroasEly Soloist #2

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et JulietteasStéphano

The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan TutteasDorabella

The Metropolitan Opera: AidaasSelf - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of FigaroasCherubino

The Metropolitan Opera: The TempestasMiranda

The Metropolitan Opera: ToscaasSelf - Host

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di SivigliaasRosina

The Metropolitan Opera: La TraviataasSelf - Host

Mozart: Così fan tutteasDorabella

The Metropolitan Opera: Cinderellaas

The Metropolitan Opera: MarnieasMarnie

Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewoodas
Giulio Cesare in EgittoasSesto

Metropolitan Opera At Home GalaasSelf
Jules CésarasSesto

Poulenc: Dialogues des CarmélitesasBlanche de la Force

Don GiovanniasElvira

Met Opera 2022/23: Der Rosenkavalieras

The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxosas