During HGO’s 2024-25 season, Isabel Leonard performs the role of Angelina in Cinderella and serves as director of HGO Family Day Presents Cinderella. Previously for HGO, she performed the roles of Maria in The Sound of Music (2024) and Charlotte in Werther (2022). In repertoire that spans from Vivaldi to Mozart to Nico Muhly, Leonard has graced the stages of the Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, Salzburg Festival, Bavarian State Opera, Carnegie Hall, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Aix-en-Provence Festival, The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, LA Opera, and Santa Fe Opera in The Barber of Seville (Rosina), Cinderella (Angelina), The Marriage of Figaro (Cherubino), Così fan tutte (Dorabella), Don Giovanni (Zerlina/Donna Elvira), La clemenza di Tito (Sesto), Werther (Charlotte), Dialogues of the Carmelites (Blanche de la Force), Griselda (Costanza), La bohème (Musetta), Giulio Cesare (Sesto), and the title roles in Carmen, La Périchole, Cendrillon, Marnie, and Der Rosenkavalier. During the 2024-25 season, she performs the role of Rosina in The Barber of Seville at Opéra National de Paris and The Metropolitan Opera, and makes her house debut with Gran Teatre del Liceu as Anita in a concert performance of Bernstein’s West Side Story. In the 2023-24 season, she performed at the Bavarian State Opera as Angelina in Cinderella, Los Angeles Opera in the roles of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Washington National Opera as the title character in Offenbach’s La Périchole. Leonard is a recipient of the Richard Tucker Award and a multiple Grammy Award winner, most recently for Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges on Decca (2016) and The Tempest (2014) from The Metropolitan Opera on Deutsche Grammophon, both for Best Opera Recording. In 2023, Leonard appeared in the films She Came to Me and the Academy Award-nominated Maestro. She was Rice University Shepherd School of Music’s 2023-24 Aleko Endowed Masterclass Artist.