Person Details

Birthday: 1982-02-18 16:20:47

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: New York City, New York, United States

Homepage: https://isabelleonard.com/

Movie Involvements: 16

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Verdi: Aida
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Verdi: Aida

(2018) Self - Host
Don Giovanni
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Don Giovanni

(2017) Elvira
The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest
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Metropolitan Opera Live — Marnie
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The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
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8
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
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The Metropolitan Opera: Dialogues des Carmélites
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