Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard has been highly visible in the 2020s, appearing in the Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro. She has appeared at major opera houses in the U.S. and Europe. Leonard has also performed on several award-winning opera recordings. In 2024, she was heard on the anthology Grace, collecting recordings by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
Leonard was born on February 18, 1982, in New York. Her maternal grandfather was an Argentine chess grandmaster. Leonard was musically inclined from childhood, singing in the children's chorus of the Manhattan School of Music,...