Isabel Leonard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 18, 1982
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies with Isabel Leonard
- Maestro 2023 · ★ 6.2
- Mozart: Così fan tutte 2009 · ★ 6.0
- Jules César 2011 · ★ 1.0
- The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca 2018 · ★ 7.0
- The Metropolitan Opera: Cinderella 2022 · ★ 6.0
- The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos 2022 · ★ 8.0
- The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest 2012 · ★ 10.0
- Don Giovanni 2017 · ★ 10.0
- Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood 2018 · ★ 10.0
- The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie 2018 · ★ 10.0
- Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala 2020 · ★ 9.0
- The Metropolitan Opera: Aida 2018 · ★ 9.0
- Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites 2019 · ★ 8.0
- The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata 2017 · ★ 8.0
- The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette 2007 · ★ 8.0
- The Metropolitan Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego 2026 · ★ 7.0
- Met Opera 2022/23: Der Rosenkavalier 2023
- The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte 2014
- The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro 2014
- The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia 2014
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto 2012