Isabel Leonard
An image from The Metropolitan Opera: Aida, one of the productions that also features Isabel Leonard.
Isabel Leonard

Isabel Leonard

February 18, 1982 — New York City, New York, USA

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.

Mozart: Così fan tutte

Mozart: Così fan tutte

2009

The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest

The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest

2012

Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni

2017

Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

2018

The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie

The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie

2018

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

2018

The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos

The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos

2022

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

2017