Isabel Leonard is a Grammy®-winning Argentine-American mezzo-soprano.
We’ve watched her perform at the Argentine Consulate in New York. When Ms. Leonard starts to sing, you can’t help but stop whatever you are doing and just listen. She has a really commanding stage presence.
Isabel Leonard in New York City
Isabel Leonard, the Grammy-winning Argentine American mezzo-soprano, sing’s Berlioz’s “Le Nuits d´été” love song cycle in a concert with Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra (“2001: A Space Odyssey” Theme), and Moussa’s “Elysium;” in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Thursday-Saturday, January 2-4, and Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 7:30pm. From $44. 🇦🇷
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Isabel Leonard
Ms. Leonard is known for her dramatic ability as well as her singing. She was born February 18, 1982 in New York City and still lives in New York. She is Argentine on her mother’s side.
Ms. Leonard started her career singing in the Manhattan School of Music children’s chorus. She has Bachelor’s and Masters of Music from Juilliard.
Ms. Leonard began singing opera in 2007 and made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Stéphano in “Roméo et Juliette” the same year.
At the Met, she also sings Rosina in “The Barber of Seville,” Cherubino in “Le Nozze di Figaro,” Miranda in “The Tempest,” Dorabella in “Così fan tutte,” Zerlina in “Don Giovanni,” Charlotte in “Werther,” and Cherubino in “Le Nozze di Figaro.”
Ms. Leonard won her first Grammy for “Best Opera Recording” for Adès’ “The Tempest” (Deutsche Grammophon, 2013).
She won her second Grammy for “Best Opera Recording” for her singing of the child in Ravel’s one-act opera L’enfant et les sortileges on the album Ravel: L’enfant et les sortileges, Sheherazade conducted by Seiji Ozawa (Decca, 2015).
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