

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Great Artists Series '26: Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 29 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center 

Annual Pillsbury Concert

"She has an effervescent personality and a voice to match" - San Francisco Classical Voice

Program:
Program
Clavelitos by J. Valverde

Nana de Sevilla by F. García-Lorca
La Tarara                                                        

Cinco Canciones Negras by Xavier Montsalvatge
    Cuba dentro de un piano
    Punto Habañera
    Chévere
    Canción de cuna para dormir un negrito
    Canto negro

Intermission

Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (1950) by Aaron Copland/Emily Dickinson
I’ll Be Seeing You, from Right This Way (1938) –by Sammy Fain/Irving Kahal
My Ship, from Lady in the Dark (1941) by Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin
The Way You Look Tonight, from Swing Time (1936; arr. Isabel Leonard and John Arida) by  Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields

I’m a Person Too, from I Hate Music: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs (1943) by  Leonard Bernstein
Lonely Town, from On the Town (1944) by Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Green
I’m a Stranger Here Myself, from One Touch of Venus (1943) by Kurt Weill/Ogden Nash
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes, from Cinderella (1949; arr. Isabel Leonard and John Arida) by Mack David/Al Hoffman/Jerry Livingston



Biography:
Three-time Grammy Award winning artist Isabel Leonard has established herself as one of the most in demand performers as a star on the world’s leading stages and screens. The 2024 – 2025 season sees Ms. Leonard’s much anticipated return to Opéra National de Paris as Rosina in Damiano Michieletto’s production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, conducted by Diego Matheuz, and her house debut with Gran Teatre del Liceu as Anita in a concert performance of Bernstein’s West Side Story, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Ms. Leonard also returns to Houston Grand Opera to sing Angelina in Joan Font’s production of Cenerentola and for her directorial debut leading the HGO Family Day production of Cinderella, as well as her return to The Metropolitan Opera as Rosina in Bartlett Sher’s celebrated production of Il barbiere di Siviglia. Orchestral appearances include performances of Les Nuits d’été with Kevin John Edusei conducting the New York Philharmonic, and Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony conducted by music director Courtney Lewis. Ms. Leonard also continues her collaboration with guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas, performing their all-Spanish program at the Gallo Center for the Performing arts, and appears in recital with Matinee Musicale in Cincinnati, OH, Teatro de la Ciudad in Monterrey, Mexico, Sala Sao Paulo, and Teatro Municipal de Río de Janeiro.

The 2023 – 2024 season saw Ms. Leonard’s return Bayersiche Staatsoper as Angelina in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s production of La Cenerentola, and a return to Los Angeles Opera to sing the roles of Donna Elvira in the Kasper Holton production of Don Giovanni as well as her signature role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia. She also returned to Houston Grand Opera for her role debut as Maria in Francesca Zamebllo’s production of The Sound of Music, and to Washington National Opera to reprise her appearance as the title character in Offenbach’s La Périchole. Concert work includes opening the Dallas Symphony’s season in a special gala performance with Emanuel Ax, an appearance hosting Palm Beach Opera’s season gala, and a live recording of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Gustavo Gimeno conducting the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Additional concert appearances included Ravel’s Schéhérazade with both the New World Symphony and longtime collaborator Stéphane Denève and with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, and an eleven-city concert tour with renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. Ms. Leonard also appeared in recital with Pablo Sáinz Villegas at the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, reprising their program of songs in Spanish.

Highlights of Ms. Leonard’s career include the title roles in Carmen, La Périchole, Cendrillon, Marnie, and Der Rosenkavalier, as well as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Zerlina and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, Charlotte in Werther, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Costanza in Griselda, Musetta in La bohème, Der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, Sesto in Giulio Cesare, Maria in West Side Story, and Marguerite in a concert performance of Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust.

Ms. Leonard regularly appears on the stages of the world’s leading opera stages including The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Los Angeles Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Salzburg Festspiele, and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. She regularly enjoys collaboration with esteemed conductors including Valery Gergiev, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Charles Dutoit, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yannick Nézét-Seguin, Franz Welser-Möst, Plácido Domingo, Edward Gardner, James Levine, Edo de Waart, James Conlon, Marin Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis, Michele Mariotti, Harry Bicket, Andris Nelsons, and Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestral highlights include appearances with Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Orquestra Acadêmica Mozarteum Brasileiro, in São Paulo, and at Teatro Positivo in Curitiba, Brazil, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Vienna Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony, among others. She also enjoys a regular collaboration with celebrated international star Andrea Bocelli, performing with him at arenas around the world.

In the recital hall, Ms. Leonard has partnered with Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas for performances of an all Spanish program with Lincoln Center Presents the Metropolitan Opera at Alice Tully Hall, LA Opera at the Colburn School, San Diego Opera at the La Jolla Music Society, the Harris Theatre in Chicago, and the Conservatorìo de Música de Puerto Rico.

Television and film credits include an appearance in the Rebecca Miller film She Came to Me, starring Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei, an appearance in the Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, directed by Bradley Cooper, being featured on the season 43 finale of Sesame Street in Murray Monster’s “People in Your Neighborhood’ segment, scenes from Terrence McNally’s Masterclass directed by Nicole Alexander, and as a regular host of The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcasts.

Ms. Leonard was named recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award and currently has 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 currently resides in New York and sits on the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Hall and on the Artistic Advisory Board of ArtSmart.

**All programs subject to change

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Single Tickets  
$35-40 General Admission
$32-37 WashU Faculty/Staff
$15 Students/Youth
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Clayton
- **state**: MO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The 560 Music Center
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- **full address**: The 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity Ave, St Louis, MO 63130-4315, United States, Clayton

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