Acting
22
Woman
18 Feb 1982 (42)
New York City, New York, USA
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Isabel Leonard
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.
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Maestro | Ely Soloist #2 |
| 2023 | Met Opera 2022/23: Der Rosenkavalier | |
| 2022 | The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos | |
| 2022 | The Metropolitan Opera: Cinderella | |
| 2020 | Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala | Self |
| 2019 | Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites | Blanche de la Force |
| 2018 | Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood | |
| 2018 | Metropolitan Opera Live — Marnie | Marnie |
| 2018 | Verdi: Aida | Self - Host |
| 2018 | Tosca | Self - Host |
| 2017 | Don Giovanni | Elvira |
| 2017 | The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata | Self - Host |
| 2014 | The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte | Dorabella |
| 2014 | The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro | Cherubino |
| 2014 | The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rosina |
| 2012 | The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest | Miranda |
| 2012 | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | Sesto |
| 2011 | Jules César | Sesto |
| 2009 | Mozart: Così fan tutte | Dorabella |
| 2007 | The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette | Stéphano |
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto | Presenter |
| 2018 | Tosca | Presenter |