Isabel Leonard

Three-time Grammy Award winning artist Isabel Leonard has established herself as one of the most in demand performers as a star on the world’s leading stages and screens. The 2022 – 2023 season sees Ms. Leonard’s much anticipated role debut as Octavian in Roberto Carson’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, opposite Lise Davidsen, as well as her house debut at Teatro alla Scala as Miranda in Thomas Adès’ The Tempest. Ms. Leonard also makes her house debut at Houston Grand Opera to sing Charlotte in Werther, conducted by Robert Spano. Continuing her long time collaboration with Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra music director Stéphane Denève, she appears as Marguerite in a concert performance of Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust. In the recital hall, Ms. Leonard partners with renowned Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas for performances with Lincoln Center Presents the Metropolitan Opera at Alice Tully Hall, LA Opera at the Colburn School, San Diego Opera at the La Jolla Music Society, the Harris Theatre in Chicago, and the Conservatorìo de Música de Puerto Rico.

Ms. Leonard was named recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award and currently has three Grammy Awards for Michael Tilson Thomas’ From the Diary of Anne Frank on SFS Media, Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges on Decca, and The Tempest from The Metropolitan Opera on Deutsche Grammophon.  She currently resides in New York and sits on the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Hall and on the Artistic Advisory Board of ArtSmart.