A native New Yorker and graduate of The Juilliard School, three-time Grammy Award-winning artist Isabel Leonard has built a career of rare breadth, establishing herself as one of the most compelling performers on the world’s leading stages and screens. The 2026–2027 season finds Ms. Leonard at the center of an exceptionally wide-ranging series of operatic and orchestral engagements. She makes her house debut at Teatro Real in Madrid as Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and sings her role debut as Julie in Show Boat with Houston Grand Opera. She is also featured as a star soloist in the Metropolitan Opera’s Diamond Jubilee Gala. Orchestral highlights include opening the Houston Symphony’s season, a gala appearance with the San Diego Symphony, and performances with the San Francisco Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Leonard has extended her reach well beyond classical music audiences through an active presence in film and popular culture. Television and film credits include an appearance in the Rebecca Miller film She Came to Me starring Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei, and the Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro directed by Bradley Cooper. She has also been featured on Sesame Street, in scenes from Terrence McNally’s Masterclass, and is a familiar presence to audiences worldwide as a regular host of The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcasts.
Ms. Leonard is the recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award and holds three Grammy Awards for Michael Tilson Thomas’ From the Diary of Anne Frank on SFS Media, Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges on Decca, and The Tempest from the Metropolitan Opera on Deutsche Grammophon. She sits on the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Hall and on the Artistic Advisory Board of ArtSmart
