My love of music was cultivated from early childhood in the stimulating atmosphere of a home filled with music and professional musicians, serious students of music, and ongoing discussions about musical matters. Recent years have also seen her perform the title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Wiener Staatsoper and Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther with the Royal Opera House in London.I am the daughter of two prominent classical musicians and teachers of operatic singing (Bel Canto). Two of these, the title role in Nico Muhly’s new opera Marnie (a Met commission), and the role of Blanche in Poulenc’s tragic Dialogues des Carmelites, were broadcast all over the world as part of The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD program. An audience favorite at The Metropolitan Opera, last season she sang three leading roles there. Isabel Leonard has built an unprecedented international career, performing all over the world and winning a number of competitions and awards, chief of which is the prestigious Richard Tucker Foundation Award in 2013. Hailed as “opera’s most in-demand singer” by Town and Country, the two-time Grammy-winning Isabel Leonard makes her Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra subscription concert debut February 7–8, singing the role of “l’enfant” (“The Child”) in Ravel’s fairy-tale opera L’enfant et les sortilèges. Before college I had been singing musical theater and with the jazz band as well…. “I ended up fully entrenched in classical music, really, once I began at Juilliard.
“I always sang, since I was a child,” says Isabel Leonard.
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