Isabel Leonard

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Isabel Leonard (born New York City, 1982[1]) is an American mezzo-soprano. For five years, she sang with the Manhattan School of Music Children’s Chorus. She also attended the Joffrey Ballet School. She is a graduate of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. She earned her Bachelor 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.

Leonard is a 2005 winner of a Marilyn Horne Foundation award. She is a recipient of a 2006 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award. She was also chosen as a recipient of a "Movado Future Legends" award in 2006.

In New York, Leonard has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center[2] and with the Julliard Opera Center[3]. 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.[4] In 2007, she made an acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut in Roméo et Juliette as the page Stéphano:

"And making her company debut with remarkable aplomb as Stéphano was Isabel Leonard, a young Juilliard graduate who sang with the assurance of one who feels completely at home on the stage, wielding an easy mezzo that went up from an amber-colored lower register to an impressive, soprano like top. It is hard to make a splash in a pants role in a long opera on a night when Anna Netrebko is singing, but Ms. Leonard did."[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Trish Hall. "Child Care, as Seen by Children", The New York Times, 26 January 1989. Retrieved on 2008-02-07. 
  2. ^ Jeremy Eichler. "A Mozart Clan: Nice Sounds Veiled by One Celestial Note", The New York Times, 15 November 2005. Retrieved on 2008-02-07. 
  3. ^ Bernard Holland. "A U.P.S. Man Joins Offenbach’s Gods and Goddesses", The New York Times, 18 November 2006. Retrieved on 2008-02-07. 
  4. ^ Anthony Tommasini. "Childhood Fantasies, Without All the Cutesy", The New York Times, 7 October 2006. Retrieved on 2008-02-07. 
  5. ^ Anne Midgette. "The Lovers of Verona, Swaggering and Soaring", The New York Times, 27 September 2007. Retrieved on 2008-02-07. 

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