Three-time Grammy Award winning artist Isabel Leonard joins the roster of Promethean Artists for world wide general management. Appearing regularly on the world’s leading opera stages as well as in television and film, Ms. Leonard’s extensive career has seen her achieve remarkable success.

“I am looking forward to collaborating with Promethean Artists in this next stage of my career,” Ms. Leonard said. “I’ve been a firm believer that as artists, we need to actively take responsibility for growth in our careers. Cultivating a team that shares a similar vision and goals, like Promethean and I do, is paramount for success.”

She adds “These sort of changes can be a stressful experience for everyone involved, and I’m grateful to Magnum Opus and Askonas Holt for their collaboration and support as I enter this new phase of my career.”

“We’re incredibly honored to be working with a star of Isabel’s caliber,” President of Promethean Artists Adam Cavagnaro said. “It’s inspiring to work with an artist who is so intensely committed to engaging the operatic community beyond the usual audience profile, while still demanding the highest level of artistry of herself. Isabel’s motivation to use her television and movie appearances to introduce new audience members to opera is exactly the kind of innovative thinking that Promethean Artists is proud to support.”

The 2021 – 2022 season sees Ms. Leonard’s return to The Metropolitan Opera in her role debut as Der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, a return to the role of Cherubino in the Richard Eyre production of Le nozze di Figaro, and in the title role in Laurent Pelly’s production of Cinderella. Ms. Leonard also makes her debut in the title role of Carmen in both Francesca Zambello’s production at Washington National Opera, conducted by music director Evan Rogister, and in Santa Fe Opera’s production conducted by Harry Bicket. Ms. Leonard also appears in Washington National Opera’s reopening gala, Come Home, as well as a concert commemorating the anniversary of September 11th with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Giancarlo Noseda. In recital this season, she appears at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Connecticut.

Career highlights include the title roles in Carmen, La Périchole, Cendrillon, Marnie, and Der Rosenkavalier, as well as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, 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, and Sesto in Giulio Cesare, with houses such as The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Los Angeles Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, San Francisco Opera, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Salzburg Festspiele, and Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

Television and film appearances include an appearance 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.

Isabel Leonard Joins Promethean Artists