Isabel Leonard
Born: 1982-02-18 in New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2023
- Maestro as Ely Soloist #2
- Met Opera 2022/23: Der Rosenkavalier
2022
2020
- Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala as Self
2019
- Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites as Blanche de la Force
2018
- The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie as Marnie
- Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
- The Metropolitan Opera: Aida as Self - Host
- The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca as Self - Host
2017
- The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata as Self - Host
- Don Giovanni as Elvira
2014
- The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia as Rosina
- The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro as Cherubino
- The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte as Dorabella
2012
- The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest as Miranda
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto as Sesto
2011
- Jules César as Sesto
2009
- Mozart: Così fan tutte as Dorabella