Isabel Leonard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Isabel Leonard

American operatic mezzo-soprano

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1982

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: singer, opera singer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Isabel Leonard

  • Isabel Leonard (born February 18, 1982) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
  • She is of Argentine ancestry on her mother's side.Leonard was born in New York City.
  • For five years she sang with the Manhattan School of Music children's chorus.
  • She attended the Joffrey Ballet School.
  • She is a graduate of The Cathedral School of St.
  • John the Divine and the Fiorello H.
  • LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
  • She earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at the Juilliard School, where she was a pupil of Edith Bers.
  • She has also studied with Marilyn Horne, Brian Zeger, Warren Jones, and Margo Garrett.
  • She is a 2005 winner of the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition.
  • In 2006, she received The Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award.
  • She was also chosen as a recipient of a Movado Future Legends award in 2006.
  • In 2013, she received the Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award. In New York, Leonard has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and with the Juilliard Opera Center.
  • Her first appearance with the New York Philharmonic was in a concert version of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and she later sang the part of the Squirrel in L'enfant et les sortilèges in concert with the orchestra and Lorin Maazel.
  • In February 2007, Leonard made her professional operatic stage debut as StĂ©phano in RomĂ©o et Juliette.
  • In September 2007, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the same role.
  • Leonard made her debut with Santa Fe Opera as Cherubino in 2008.
  • Her commercial recordings include a DVD recording for Euroarts as Dorabella in the 2009 Salzburg Festival production of Così fan tutte.
  • On April 26, 2014, Leonard sang the role of Dorabella in a performance at the Metropolitan Opera that was transmitted worldwide as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD program.
  • In February 2011, Leonard made her Vienna State Opera debut singing Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, returning to the venue in January 2012 as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia.
  • 2014 to 2016 Leonard and Sharon Isbin performed a well-received series of eleven soprano/guitar-duet recitals, including at Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall).Leonard won two Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording: in 2014 for Thomas Adès' The Tempest, and in 2016 for Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges. Leonard married baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes in December 2008; they are now divorced.
  • Based in New York City, Leonard raises their son, Teo, born 17 May 2010.

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