Isabel Leonard

Born: 1982-02-18

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.


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Maestro

as Ely Soloist #2
Released: 2023-11-22

A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard...

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Verdi: Aida

as Self - Host
Released: 2018-10-06

With its cast of hundreds, thrilling score, and sweeping tale of love and heroics in ancient...

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Tosca

as Self - Host
Released: 2018-01-27

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome,...

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Don Giovanni

as Elvira
Released: 2017-01-01

Considered by some to be the greatest opera ever written, Don Giovanni was the second product of...

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The Metropolitan Opera: Dialogues des Carmélites

as Blanche De La Force
Released: 2019-05-11

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads an accomplished ensemble in Poulenc’s devastating...

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The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

as Self - Host
Released: 2017-03-11

La Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a...

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The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest

as Miranda
Released: 2012-11-09

Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last...

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The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

as Rosina
Released: 2014-11-22

A youthful cast brings Rossini’s immortal comedy to sparkling life, led by Christopher Maltman...

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Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

as uncredited
Released: 2018-12-28

In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston...

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The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte

as Dorabella
Released: 2014-04-26

Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated...

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Metropolitan Opera Live — Marnie

as Marnie
Released: 2018-11-10

Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of...

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The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

as Cherubino
Released: 2014-10-18

Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of...

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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

as Blanche de la Force
Released: 2019-05-11

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of...

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The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette

as Stéphano
Released: 2007-12-15

The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and...

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Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

as uncredited
Released: 2020-04-25

In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere...

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Met Opera 2022/23: Der Rosenkavalier

as uncredited
Released: 2023-04-15

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Mozart: Così fan tutte

as Dorabella
Released: 2009-01-01

German director Claus Guth´s Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy was concluded at the 2009 Salzburg Festival...

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The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos

as uncredited
Released: 2022-03-12

The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles,...

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The Metropolitan Opera: Cinderella

as uncredited
Released: 2022-01-01

In this New Year’s Day performance, Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon,...

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