Highlights in Isabel’s 2017/18 season include a return to the Metropolitan Opera House where she will reprise her critically-acclaimed portrayal of Cherubino in Richard Eyre’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro; the title role in La Cenerentola at the Bayerische Staatsoper & Vienna State Opera; and Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Washington National Opera.

In previous seasons she has appeared at the Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence and Glyndebourne Festivals, the Opéra National de Paris, the Canadian Opera Company, the Vienna and Munich State Operas and, in the United States, at the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Washington National Opera.

Her concert appearances have included the New York Philharmonic with Maazel, the Boston Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras with Dudamel, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Nelsons at the Tanglewood Festival, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with both Salonen and Gergiev, the Cleveland Orchestra with Welser-Möst and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with Conlon. A popular recitalist, she has appeared in Boston, San Francisco and Washington, in Atlanta’s Spivey Hall and in New York at both the Zankel and Alice Tully Halls.

Grammy Award winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard is acclaimed for her “passionate intensity and remarkable vocal beauty” and has thrilled audiences both at home in the United States and internationally.

She is recipient of the prestigious 2013 Richard Tucker Award.