Isabel Leonard

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Isabel Leonard (born February 18, 1982)[1] is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer based in New York City. She is of Argentine ancestry on her mother's side.[2]

Education

Leonard was born in New York City. For five years she sang with 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.

Career

In New York, Leonard has performed with the

Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall).[11] Leonard sang the lead role in the American premiere of Marnie at the Met in New York in October 2018.[12]

In 2023, Leonard appeared in the movie Maestro singing with Rosa Feola in the finale of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection", in a reproduction of the famed 1973 performance led by Leonard Bernstein in Ely Cathedral.[13][14]

Awards

Leonard won two

2021 she won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium for From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditations on Rilke, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
.

Personal life

Her grandfather Carlos Guimard (1913–1998) was an Argentine chess grandmaster.[15] Leonard married baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes in December 2008; they divorced around 2013.[16] Leonard raises their son, Teo, born 17 May 2010.[3]

Repertory

References

  1. ^ Hall, Trish (January 26, 1989). "Child Care, as Seen by Children". The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
  2. ^ a b Driscoll, F. Paul (March 2008). "Sound Bites: Isabel Leonard". Opera News. 72 (9). Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Shattuck, Kathryn (November 12, 2010). "It's Not Over Till the Svelte Mama Sings". The New York Times. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  4. ^ Eichler, Jeremy (November 15, 2005). "A Mozart Clan: Nice Sounds Veiled by One Celestial Note". The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
  5. ^ Holland, Bernard (November 18, 2006). "A U.P.S. Man Joins Offenbach's Gods and Goddesses". The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
  6. ^ Tommasini, Anthony (October 7, 2006). "Childhood Fantasies, Without All the Cutesy". The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
  7. ^ Midgette, Anne (September 27, 2007). "The Lovers of Verona, Swaggering and Soaring". The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
  8. ^ Tommasini, Anthony (August 4, 2008). "From Handel, Faithlessness and Devotion". The New York Times. Retrieved August 16, 2008.
  9. ^ Opera Today review of Euroarts DVD of Così fan tutte
  10. ^ Brookes, Stephen (March 25, 2015). "Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard shines with guitarist Sharon Isbin". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  11. ^ Schweitzer, Vivien (November 13, 2015). "Isabel Leonard and Sharon Isbin in a Duet of Voice and Guitar". The New York Times. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  12. ^ Woolfe, Zachary (November 22, 2017). "Review: Nico Muhly's Marnie Brings Hitchcock Into the 21st Century". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Woolfe, Zachary (December 22, 2023). "'Maestro' Won't Let Leonard Bernstein Fail". New York Times. Retrieved December 29, 2023.
  14. ^ Doyle Moor, Emily (November 20, 2023). "Maestro musings". Sante Fe Opera. Retrieved December 29, 2023.
  15. ^ @isabelleonardny (October 12, 2020). "Post by Isabel Leonard about her ancestral village of Santiago Del Estero, Argentina and her chess-champion grandfather". Retrieved October 17, 2020 – via Instagram.
  16. ^ Tischler, Gary (April 19, 2018). "Isabel Leonard WNOs Rosina". Georgetowner. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  17. ^ "Isabel Leonard".
  18. ^ Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Dialogues des Carmélites to conclude his first season as Met Music Director. April 19th, 2019
  19. ^ Cunning Little Vixen
  20. ^ Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a rare revival of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, opening January 15. December 14th, 2018
  21. ^ [1]

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