NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Leonard had just finished singing Sesto ... The performer scheduled to play Cherubino had gotten sick, and the company wanted the mezzo-soprano to make an unscheduled ...

If I’m prepared, I shouldn’t be nervous. Leonard, left, as Cherubino, with Emma Bell as the Countess Even at your Met debut? Well, I think I was prepared for it, so I wasn’t really nervous.

NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Richard Tucker award — often called the “Heisman Trophy of opera” — goes to mezzo-soprano Isabel ... praised Leonard’s signature role of Cherubino ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Kathryn Shattuck EARLY this fall the mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard stood beside the grand piano in the Central Park West apartment of Edith Bers ...

Whatever the "package" is, Isabel Leonard has it: looks, stagecraft and a pleasing midweight mezzo-soprano voice that can be sultry or floating, and moves with astounding ease from low notes to an ...

Well, okay — maybe tickets to the Caribbean. But a close second was Tuesday night’s impassioned performance by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and guitar legend Sharon Isbin, who brought two ...

Isabel Leonard’s journey to becoming one of Opera’s most celebrated figures is one of constant reinvention and passion. As a child, Isabel never imagined she’d be an opera singer.

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Isabel Leonard had just finished singing Sesto ... The performer scheduled to play Cherubino had gotten sick, and the company wanted the mezzo-soprano to make an unscheduled ...