How Isabel Leonard and Gabriella Reyes reimagined Frida Kahlo’s life at the Met: “We are terrifying. We are nurturing.”

Isabel Leonard and Gabriella Reyes discuss transformation, Latina identity, and humanizing Frida Kahlo in the Metropolitan ...
BroadwayWorld

State Theatre New Jersey Presents Isabel Leonard & Pablo Sáinz-Villegas In Recital

In October 2021, Pablo Sainz-Villegas was invited by Peter Gelb of The Met Opera to join forces, in part, with opera superstar Isabel Leonard in a worldwide broadcast live from Versailles. Following ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

The diva life

Living the dream, at the top of her art, three-time Grammy-winner Argentine-American Mezzo Soprano Isabel Leonard arrives to dazzle Los Angeles audiences on opening night September 23rd, as the ...
Houston Press

Houston Grand Opera’s The Sound of Music Begins This Weekend. Yodelayheehoo!

Grammy Award-winning opera mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard has never “officially” yodeled before but she’ll be doing a bit of that on the Wortham stage starting Friday as she plays the lead role of Maria ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Sing Themselves to Death in an Opera at the Met Inspired by Greek Mythology and Mexican Magical Realism

Spanish opera "El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego" takes the stage in New York City this week, while a partner exhibition at ...
BroadwayWorld

Jordan Donica to Join Isabel Leonard for Concert at Carnegie Hall

Multi-Grammy Award–winning singer Isabel Leonard has had a career that has brought her to leading opera houses and concert halls around the world. This season, she will return to her native New York, ...
The Business Journals

REVIEW: Opera star Isabel Leonard overcomes travel hurdles to soar in Matinee Musicale recital

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Celebrated mezzo soprano Isabel ...
Houston Press

Rossini’s Cinderella at HGO: A Showstopping Cast Complete With Scene Stealing Rats

Emily Trigle as Tisbe, Alissa Goretsky as Clorinda and Isabel Leonard as Angelina/Cinderella in HGO's Cinderella. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane In the world of opera (as in any art), each composer has a ...
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Houston Grand Opera debuts 'Family Day' production of 'Cinderella'

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Rossini's "Cinderella" from Houston Grand Opera is playing at the Wortham Theater Center now through Nov. 9. The show run is highlighted by HGO's first-ever "HGO Family Day" ...
Washington Examiner

‘Heisman Trophy of opera’ goes to Isabel Leonard

NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Richard Tucker award — often called the “Heisman Trophy of opera” — goes to mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. The 2013 prize marks the centennial of the birth of the great ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Songbird’ Review: Making Offenbach Swing in Washington

“Songbird,” the adaptation of Offenbach’s operetta “La Périchole” now playing at the Washington National Opera, harks back to the days when Covid-19 forced arts groups to find new ways to perform. In ...